CHAPTER XIV 



LAND TENURE 



SINCE the opening of the twentieth century 

 landed proprietors have suffered a great deal of 

 regimentation or lack of freedom in handling their 

 estates — that is assuming they have carried on the 

 old method of letting their farms on a yearly tenancy. 

 Some of this regimentation has been helpful to the 

 tenants, but I am not sure that all the clauses of 

 the Act have given results commensurable with good 

 farming. The Game clauses, whereby a "sitting" 

 tenant may lay claim to damage done to growing 

 crops, have been helpful, but evidence still exists that 

 these have had little effect, if any, on the reduction 

 of game or rabbits. 



No one wishes to restrict our national sports, 

 but some of these shooting syndicates might very 

 well curb their anxiety to show a heavy bag, and 

 take steps to lower their stock of game. If this 

 were done I feel certain many farmers would reap 

 a real benefit. 



There is another side to this limitation of a land- 

 lord's right in dealing with his own property, and 

 one which I have always held to be of a very doubtful 

 benefit to the tenant. In many cases I am quite 



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