AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



ing landlords [of Lincolnshire] were liberal and 

 intelligent men. . . . They saw the advantage of 

 encouraging tenants to embark their capital 

 freely; and as leases were not the fashion of the 

 county, they gave them that security for their 

 invested capital, which is termed 'tenant-right,' 

 or compensation for unexhausted improvements. 

 Though this tenant-right may not be a strictly 

 legal claim, it is universally admitted in Lincoln- 

 shire, the landlord paying it when a farm falls 

 into his own hands, and refusing to accept a ten- 

 ant who declines to comply with the custom. It 

 varies, however, considerably in the different parts 

 of the county, and appears to have enlarged in 

 its obligations with the greater development of 

 agricultural improvements. In North Lincoln- 

 shire, the usual allowances claimed by the outgo- 

 ing from the incoming tenant, include draining, 

 marling, chalking, claying, lime, bone, guano, 

 rape dust and oil-cake. The following is the scale 

 on which these allowances are usually made : 



When the landlord has found tiles, and the tenant has 

 done the labor, if done within twelve months before the end 

 of the tenancy and no crop has been taken from land after 

 the draining thereof is completed the whole cost is allowed. 

 If one crop has been taken from such land, three-fourths 

 of the cost are allowed, and so on, diminishing the allowance 

 by one-fourth for each crop taken; but this allowance is 

 made only when the work is well and properly done by the 

 tenant, to the satisfaction of the landlord or his agent, ex- 

 pressed in writing. For marling or chalking, if done with- 

 in twelve months before the end of the tenancy, the whole 

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