AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



The law enables the tenant farmers to obtain from 

 the landlords as compensation for improvements 

 at the termination of their tenancies, "such sum 

 as fairly represents the value of the improve- 

 ment to an incoming tenant." 



The improvements for which compensation 

 could be claimed under this law were divided into 

 three classes. The first class includes all those 

 improvements to which the consent of the land- 

 lord is required if the payment of compensation is 

 to be enforced by law. This class includes the 

 following list of improvements : 



(1) Erection or enlargement of buildings. 



(2) Formation of silos. 



(3) Laying down of permanent pasture. 



(4) Making and planting of osier beds. 



(5) Making of water meadows or works of irrigation. 



(6) Making of gardens. 



(7) Making or improving of roads or bridges. 



(8) Making or improving of water courses, ponds, wells 

 or reservoirs, or of works for the application of water 

 power or for supply of water for agricultural or domestic 

 purposes. 



(9) Making or removal of permanent fences. 



(10) Planting of hops. 



(n) Planting of orchards, or fruit bushes. 



(12) Protecting young fruit trees. 



(13) Reclaiming of waste land. 



(14) Warping or weiring of land. 



(15) Embankments and sluices against floods. 



(16) The erection of wirework in hop gardens. 



[N. B. The above are subject to the provisions given 

 under the third class of improvements with respect to mar- 

 ket gardens.] 



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