LANDLORDS AND TENANTS 



leading agriculturists of the country agree that 

 such contracts should contain few restrictions 

 upon the methods of farming, except that the 

 farm shall be operated in accordance with the 

 rules of good husbandry. Many of the written 

 agreements now in use would, if strictly enforced, 

 bind the tenants hand and foot ; but as a matter of 

 fact many of these covenants are recognized to 

 be obsolete and others are "winked at" by the 

 landlords. A study of the written agreements 

 nominally in force at the present time would, in 

 themselves, give a very erroneous idea of the 

 actual relations between landlords and tenants. 



The farmers and the landlords of England have 

 quite generally come to recognize that liberty and 

 honesty are essential to success in agriculture. 

 The writer gradually gained the impression by 

 coming in personal contact with farmers and land- 

 lords, or more often the agents of the latter, that 

 accompanying the gradual perfecting of the Ag- 

 ricultural Holdings Act, there has been the 

 growth of a sense of justice in the minds of both 

 the landlords and the tenants. This sense of jus- 

 tice is all the more effective because it is accom- 

 panied by the belief that in farm management, 

 whatever is beneficial to the farmer is likewise 

 advantageous to the landlord. 



The English method of regulating the relations 

 between landlord and tenant is successful through- 

 out Great Britain. The history of land tenure in 



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