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for linseed oilcake and cotton cake, but nothing for purchased 

 manures. 



No compensation whatever for any purchased feeding-stuffs 

 or purchased manures is allowed by custom in Berkshire 

 (Newbury), Devonshire (Central), Devonshire (East), Dorset 

 (Blandford), Dorset (Blackmoor Vale), Durham, Essex (North), 

 Gloucestershire (West), (Ledbury), (Stow-on-the-Wold), (West of 

 Cheltenham), (Forest of Dean), Hampshire (North), Hampshire 

 (Andover), Herefordshire, Kent (East), Norfolk, Northampton- 

 shire, Northamptonshire (W T eedon), Northumberland (Tyneside), 

 Shropshire, Somersetshire (North), Suffolk (Sudbury), Worcester- 

 shire, and Yorkshire North and East Ridings (Malton), Yorkshire 

 East Riding. 



On comparing Schedule I., Form B with Schedule V., Form H, 

 it will be seen that in some few of these districts and counties 

 which have by custom no money allowance for feeding-stuffs 

 and manure, the outgoing tenant is entitled to an away-going 

 crop. Thus in Forest of Dean the outgoing tenant is entitled to 

 the wheat crop on one -third of the arable land. In Hereford- 

 shire a Candlemas or Lady-day outgoer may plant one-third of 

 the arable land with wheat, return to harvest and thrash it, and 

 for this purpose retain possession of the barn and granary-room 

 until May-day following. In Durham the outgoer is entitled to 

 sow half the arable land with wheat and retain possession of it 

 till the harvest following. In Tyneside the outgoer is owner of 

 the whole crop of corn allowed by his rotation, which he may 

 return to reap and thrash, retaining barn-room until the May-day 

 following ; but in practice the incoming tenant generally buys 

 the crops at harvest time. In Worcestershire also, in a Lady-day 

 take, the whole of the wheat crop belongs to the outgoing tenant. 

 And in Yorkshire, North and East Ridings, the outgoer has an 

 away-going crop on one-third of the tillage land, upon which no 

 corn crop has been grown in the previous year. 



In looking through the items in Schedule I., Form B, it will 

 be observed that those few districts which allow compensation 

 on a comprehensive scale for purchased feeding-stuffs and 

 manures vary to a very considerable extent as respects the pro- 

 portion of value paid for those articles. Thus, in Lincolnshire, 

 linseed oilcake, cotton cake and rape cake are paid for at half 

 the value of the last year's consumption, which must not be 

 excessive. In Isle of Ely North, linseed oilcake and cotton 

 cake are paid for at one-fourth up to one-half of the last year's 

 consumption. In Dorset (Central) the same articles are paid for 

 at one-fifth the value of the last year's consumption. In Notting- 

 hamshire they are paid for at one-fourth the value of the con- 

 sumption in the last year, and one -eighth of that in the last year 

 but one. The same proportions are customary in the West 

 Riding of Yorkshire (Barnsley) ; but in the West Riding (Wake- 

 field) the payment is for one-third the consumption in the last- 

 year, and one-fourth of the consumption in the last year but one. 



