336 Farming of Leicestershire. 



For land in root-crops. — The crop to be valued and paid for at 

 a consuming price, and the full value of all purchased manures 

 applied to the crop to be paid for. Where lime is applied for 

 the crop the total cost is allowed, if applied the previous year 

 two-thirds of the cost is allowed, and one-third if applied two 

 years previous. 



For bean, pea, or oat stubbles, prepared for wheat, — The total 

 cost of the ploughing-, &c., cartage and spreading farmyard- 

 manures, purchased manures, or lime, if applied for tlie crop, to 

 be paid. 



Clover-leys. — Allowance to be made for herbage if broken 

 up before Michaelmas, The total cost of the ploughing, pur- 

 chased manures, or lime, to be paid for as above. 



Hay, clover, straw, &c,, to be paid for at consuming value. 



For linseed -cake consumed by cattle in the yards during 

 tlie last year of the tenancy, one-fourth its cost to be allowed, or 

 if consumed on the grass, one-sixth its cost allowed. 



Drainage. — When the landlord finds tiles, and the tenant labour, 

 and only one crop follows before the tenant removes, he is 

 allowed three-fourths of tbe cost of the labour, and so on, 

 diminishing the allowance by one-fourth for each crop taken. 

 If the tenant finds tiles as well as labour, the term extends to six 

 years, the allowance diminishing one-sixtb for every crop taken. 



Lady-day Entry. — Bare summer fallows, — Allowances the 

 same as at Michaelmas, with the cost of seed and sowing the 

 wheat added. 



Root-crops. — When consumed by the incoming tenant, seed 

 and sowing to be added to the cost of the purchased manures as 

 before. The same applies to clover-layer if sown with wheat, 

 and also to the oat, bean, or pea stubbles. 



Clover-seeds sown. — The seed-bill and sowing to be paid. 



Should any hay or clover remain at Lady-day, the tenant takes 

 it at a consuming price, and also a stack of wheat-straw for 

 thatching ; but if more straw than what is necessary for this 

 purpose remain, he is not bound to pay for it. 



Improvements effected and required. — The Leicestershire Agri- 

 cultural Society " for the advancement and protection of the 

 agricultural interest in general, for the excitement of enterprise 

 and emulation among the owners and occupiers of land, and for 

 the encouragement of skill, industry, and good conduct, among 

 servants and labourers in husbandry," was established in 1833. 

 The Leicester Wool Fair, which has proved a great boon, espe- 

 cially to small farmers, was established by Lord Berners at the 

 same time, and competent authorities agree in regarding this 

 as an important era in the history of Leicestershire farming. 

 Fifteen years later, Gisborne, speaking retrospectively, placed it 



