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were expended in the same period, or about 29 

 per cent. 

 On the Fitzhardinge estate, Gloucestershire, out of 

 ^723,293 gross rent, ^^249,927 went to improve- 

 ments and repairs, or 34 per cent. These items 

 have in 1 892 fallen to 26 per cent. 

 For the same period — 



On 24,500 acres in Devon, Cornwall, and Dorset, the 

 gross rents are ^^7 36,026. Improvements and 

 repairs, ^155,067, or 21 per cent. 

 On Bolton Abbey estate, between 1880 and 1892 (13 

 years), out of ;!^i 34,760 gross rent, improvements 

 and repairs took ;^28,942, or 21 per cent. 

 On the Chatsworth estate, for thirteen years, out of 



^159,309 gross rent, ^56,084, or 35 per cent. 

 On Lord Tollemache's Suffolk estate, repairs and 

 improvements took 16-97 per cent, of the rents in 

 1872, in 1882, 35-81 per cent, but in 1892 had 

 fallen to 8-27 per cent. 

 Of Scotch estates, improvements and repairs took — on 

 Lord Wemyss's property, 992 per cent, of rents in 1872, 

 26-09 per cent, in 1882, and 14-19 per cent, in 1892; 

 on Lord Breadalbane's estates, 23-27 per cent, in 1892 ; 

 on the Poltalloch estate, 25-71 per cent, in 1872, 26-7 per 

 cent, in 1882, and 39-68 per cent, in 1892 ; on Drummond 

 Castle and Stobhall estates, 28-45 P^r cent, in 1872, 57-03 

 per cent, in 1882, and 32-28 per cent, in 1892. 



On Lord Strathmore's estates 27 per cent, of the 

 rental goes to improvements and repairs. 



On the Underley estate, in Westmorland, of 22,000 

 acres, from a rental of ;^24,ooo, sinking in 1892 to 

 ;^20,ooo, ;^i02,ooo has been spent on repairs and per- 

 manent improvements in the last twenty-eight years, or 

 rather less than £6000 a year, or from 24 to 28 per cent. 

 Sir Massey Lopes, on his Devonshire estate of 9000 

 acres, in forty years expended ;^i 50,000 on improvements 

 and repairs, two-thirds of it going to permanent improve- 

 ments. His experience is that this outlay of about 6s 

 an acre a year has left him where he was as regards 

 rental. But he has retained his tenantry in a fairly 



