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All such clauses would now seem to be inoperative in view of 

 the Agricultural Holdings Act of 1906 which came into operation 

 on the i st of January 1909. Clause 3 of that Act reads as follows: 



1) Notwithstanding any custom of the country or the provi- 

 sions of any contract of tenancy or agreement respecting the 

 method of cropping of arable lands, or the disposal of crops, a 

 tenant shall have full right to practice any system of cropping of 

 the arable land on his holding, and to dispose of the produce of 

 his holding, withous incurring any penalty, forfeiture or liability. 

 Provided that he shall previously have made, or, as soon as may 

 be, shall make, suitable and adequate provision to protect the 

 holding from injury or deterioration, which provision shall in the 

 case of disposal of the produce of the holding consist in the 

 return to the holding of the full equivalent manurial value to the 

 holding of all crops sold off or removed from the holding in con- 

 travention of the custom, contract or agreement ; paragraphs a) and b) 

 consider some cases in which this subsection does not apply. 



2) If the tenant exercises his rights under this section in 

 such a manner as to injure or deteriorate the holding or to be 

 likely to injure or deteriorate the holdrng, the landlord shall without 

 prejudice to any other remedy which may be open to him, be 

 entitled to recover damages in respect of such injury or deterio- 

 ration at any time, and, should the case so require, to obtain an 

 injunction, or in Scotland an interdict, restraining the exercise of 

 the rights under this Section in that manner, and" the amount of 

 such damages may, in default of agreement, be determined by ar- 

 bitration. 



Rotations on heavy soils. In the Carse of Gowrie, which is for 

 the most part stiff clay there is generally an eight shift. Bare 

 fallow, wheat, beans, wheat, turnips, barley, grass (cut for hay) and 

 oats. This, however is sometimes varied. At Errol for instance 

 there is a farm of stiff clay with the exception of about 10 acres 

 (4 hectares) of black land. These have been constantly in turnips 

 for twelve years giving always good crops without a trace of disease. 



It is not generally known that turnips can be grown on the 

 same field for any lenghth of time with perfect immunity from 

 finger-and-toe (Plasmodiophora Brassicae] provided no contaminated 

 dung be used. The intervention of other crops seems to account 

 for this scourge. 



The laying down to Timothy is also a very economical way of 

 farming strong soils. Immense crops can be grown, and many 



