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 payment for either labour or manure. If I am right, the labourer makes from his garden ground a profit equivalent to the rent of his cottage.

Thus it will be seen that that from his house and garden the agricultural labourer gains advantages equal to at least 4s. per week, which, if added to his money returns, will raise his wages from 15s. or 16s. to 19s. or 20s. a week, independent of what his wife and children may make, and this frequently adds 25 per cent to his income. I have said nothing about the gains of gleaning, which have been estimated at 1l. 1s. 10d. to 40s.; about the difference in the cost of bread, meat, milk, &c., which is favour of the country compared with towns; nor of the benefit an agricultural labourer is said to derive from the keeping of a pig, as I am doubtful myself whether anything is fairly gained by it; neither have I estimated the great advantage of pure