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Usually the metayer is responsible for providing the 

 labour, implements, and half the stock, while the 

 responsibility of management is shared, the discretion 

 of the landlord being exercised in the purchase and sale 

 of cattle and in the general direction of the farm. It 

 thus tends to create a unity of interests between the 

 parties, and is incompatible with absenteeism, while it 

 affords opportunities for cultivation to people who are 

 too poor to provide such a capital as the British farmer 

 requires. 



It is favourable to stability of tenure, and there are 

 some cases in which farms have been continued for over 

 three centuries in the same family of metayers. The 

 IcJcal customs relating to the respective liabilities of the 

 parties, cultivation, cropping, and the like, are authori- 

 tatively printed and sold in each district of France, and 

 must be followed, unless they are explicitly set aside in 

 the lease. — Stanley H. Turner, m.a., in "The Standard 

 Cyclopedia of Modern Agriculture." 



