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tenant with the whole of this improvement. An addition 

 is made to the list of improvements which a tenant may 

 make without his landlord's consent and for which he is 

 entitled on quitting to compensation, viz. repairs to buildings, 

 being buildings necessary for the proper working of the 

 holding, other than repairs which the tenant is obliged to 

 execute. 



2. Damage by Game. A tenant may now claim compen- 

 sation for damage to crops by deer, pheasants, partridges, 

 grouse, and black game. 



3. Freedom of Cropping and Disposal of Produce, Prior to 

 this Act it had been the custom for generations to insert cove- 

 nants in agreements providing for the proper cultivation of 

 the farm ; as, for instance, forbidding the removal from the 

 holding of hay, straw, roots, green crops, and manure made on 

 the farm. These and other covenants were merely in the 

 interests of good farming, and to prevent the soil deteriorating. 

 In recent times vexatious covenants formerly inserted had 

 practically disappeared, and where still existing were seldom 

 enforced. By this Act, notwithstanding any custom of the 

 country or any contract or agreement, the tenant may follow 

 any system of cropping, and dispose of any of his produce as 

 he pleases, but after so doing he must make suitable and 

 adequate provision to protect the farm from injury thereby : 

 a proviso vague and difficult to enforce, and not sufficient 

 to prevent an unscrupulous tenant greatly injuring his 

 farm. 



4. Compensation for unreasonable disturbance. If a land- 

 lord without good cause, and for reasons inconsistent with 

 good estate management, terminates a tenancy by notice to 

 quit ; or refuses to grant a renewal of the tenancy if so re- 

 quested at least one year before the expiration thereof ; or if 

 a tenant quits his holding in consequence of a demand by the 

 landlord for an increased rent, such demand being due to an 

 increased value in the holding owing to improvements done by 



