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Total Amount so expended — Parliamentary In- 

 quiry into the working of these Loans, and their 

 Results — General Testimony to their remunera- 

 tive 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 m the Value of La?id. 



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 



