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Total Amount so expended Parliamentary In- 

 quiry into the working of these Loans, and their 

 Results General Testimony to their rernunera- 

 rative Character Land Drainage the most remu- 

 nerative Improvement Greater Caution required 

 in Expenditure on Buildings Labourers' Dwell- 

 ings, judiciously executed and placed, as remune- 

 rative as any other Outlay of Landowner's Capital 

 Better Cottages wanted rather than more of 

 them Examples of remunerative Expenditure 79 95 



CHAPTER VII. 



Recent Rise in the Value of Land. 



Great Rise in the Value of Land since the Repeal 

 of the Corn Laws only partly due to the Out- 

 lay of Capital in Improvements Greatest Rise 

 has been in the Grazing Counties, on Grass- 

 lands, and in Scotland The Cause of this The 

 Scotch Landowner better trained to his Business 

 Landowning the only Business in which special 

 Training is not usually deemed necessary 

 Security for Tenant's Capital required Admir- 

 able Principle of Drainage Loans Extended 

 Powers of Sale in the case of Settled Estates 

 desirable Settlements should be limited to 

 Lives in being 96 no 



