LANDLORDS AND TENANTS 



cost is allowed ; for that done in the previous year, seven- 

 eighths of the cost are allowed ; and so on, diminishing the 

 allowance by one-eighth for each year that shall have 

 elapsed since the marling or chalking. For lime used 

 within twelve months before the end of the tenancy, if no 

 crop has been taken from the land limed in that year, the 

 whole cost, including labor, is allowed ; if one crop has been 

 taken from such land, four-fifths of the cost are allowed ; 

 and so on, diminishing the allowance by one-fifth for each 

 crop taken from such land. For claying on light land, a 

 similar allowance to that for lime. For bones used within 

 twelve months before the end of the tenancy two-thirds of 

 the cost are allowed, and for those used in the previous 

 year one-third of the cost. For guano and rape dust used 

 within twelve months before the end of the tenancy for 

 turnips or other green crop, two-thirds of the cost are al- 

 lowed. For oil-cake given to cattle and sheep one-third of 

 the cost price of that so used within twelve months before 

 the end of the tenancy, and one-sixth of the cost price of 

 that so used in the previous year is allowed. 



"The amount of these allowances is settled by 

 arbitration. . . . On the whole, .... the system 

 is believed to have worked well." 1 



The custom of tenant-right was fully recog- 

 nized in the counties of Sussex, Surrey, and Lin- 

 coln, in the Weald of Kent, in the northern part 

 of Nottinghamshire, and in the West Riding of 

 Yorkshire. In some of these regions the system 

 was not giving very good results. In Surrey, the 

 custom of tenant-right was said to be "promoting 

 an extensive system of fraud and falsehood 

 among the farmers." 1 The custom seems to have 

 been quite loosely formulated in that county, and 



1 Caird's English Agriculture in 1850 and 1851, pp. 194-5. 



