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to market gardeners which those Acts were intended to secure. 

 Mr. Courthope at once drafted a Bill which was introduced 

 to remedy this, but it was too near the end of the Session for 

 any progress to be made with it. It was re-introduced in 

 1912, and along with another Bill introduced by Mr. Row- 

 lands was referred to a Standing Committee. The second 

 Bill contained several contentious clauses dealing with other 

 matters. The Market Gardening Committee of the Chambers 

 presented a report, in which they urged the opposing parties 

 to drop the contentious points and to unite in getting a short 

 Bill through dealing only with the point raised in Kedwell 

 v. Flint. A few days after the Standing Committee reported 

 that both Bills had been withdrawn, and the President of 

 the Board (Mr. Runciman) introduced a fresh Bill, in almost 

 identical terms with the first one drafted by Mr. Courthope, 

 which he carried through Parliament, and which received the 

 Royal Assent on 14th February, 1913, under the name of the 

 Agricultural Holdings Act, 1913. 



1912. 



The Central Association of Tenant Right Valuers called 

 a conference of representatives of several agricultural 

 societies to consult expert chemists as to the desirability of 

 revising the tables of manurial values, and on the practicability 

 of drawing up a scale for artificial manures. On 14th July 

 the Valuations Committee presented a report of this confer- 

 ence to the Council containing the following : 



Since the date of the last report of your Committee of June 3rd, 

 1908, practically every Valuers' Association has abandoned cost 

 basis, and has adopted manurial values as the basis of their 

 scales of compensation. 



As was only to be expected, during the ten years that have 

 elapsed since Messrs. Voelcker and Hall issued their tables of 

 manurial and compensation values in 1903, the prices of manurial 

 ingredients have undergone some change, the price of nitrogen 

 being now 25 per cent, higher than in 1903. This means a con- 

 siderable increase in the compensation value of each ton of food 

 consumed, especially in the case of the more concentrated foods. 

 Various articles which have come into general use since 1903 

 have been added to the scale, whilst others of very varying com- 

 position are recommended to be dealt with on their analysis, 



