(5 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 



come to realize the great possibilities of advantage to 

 themselves as well as to the tenants and to the country as a 

 whole. The standardization of methods of estate manage- 

 ment, including forms of lease, of receipts for rent, and of 

 compensation for tenants' improvements, must be taken up 

 at once ; but at first in a manner definitely regarded as 

 experimental. The English law of landlord and tenant, and 

 especially the Agriculture Holdings Act of 1908, will provide 

 useful analogies. 



