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Rent, etc. 



The Association pays Lord Carrington's rent, and 

 charges to the tenants a slightly higher rent to 

 cover the cost of fencing, ditching, etc., and the 

 expenses of management. The Association also 

 pays the rates in the first instance, and recovers the 

 same pro rata from their tenants at the subsequent 

 rent audits. 



Terms of Tenancy, Tenant Right, etc. 



The tenant agrees not to underlet his holding, or 

 do anything injurious to an adjacent holding ; ' to 

 cultivate and manage the land according to the 

 custom of the county '; and he ' is not to grow more 

 than two white straw crops in succession.' 



In the first instance the Association decided to 

 undertake the work of trimming hedges, clearing 

 out ditches, etc., and to charge the cost to the 

 tenants. But the tenants preferred, as a rule, to do 

 the work themselves, as it fills up time which they 

 often could not usefully employ, and arrangements 

 have now been made that they shall be responsible 

 for it. 



In the case of Cowbit House Farm, the tenant 

 right was paid by the Association, who farmed the 

 land until harvest, when it was divided up amongst 

 the holders and let free of tenant right. 



Local Conditions. 



Spalding is situated in the centre of the Fenland 

 district, which has been called the * garden of 



