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good farming. At present we often have claims for the 

 deterioration of the land, and if the tenant has improved 

 the state of the farm in its cultivation he should be 

 paid for it." The schedule of condition at entry would 

 make it perfectly feasible. 



Under the present system of valuations "a tenant is 

 allowed one-third of his expenditure in cakes during his 

 last year, and one-sixth on the previous year, but a tenant 

 having been two years on a farm receives precisely the 

 same payment as if his expenditure in cakes and man- 

 ures had been going on for thirty, or forty, or fifty years. 

 In the latter case the tenant is entitled to considerably 

 more than the tenant who has only been using cakes for 

 two years. Any practical man can see at once, especi- 

 ally on grass land where cake has been largely used, the 

 value of the land has been increased. The valuers have 

 limited the principle of the Act, and it would be better 

 that compensation for continuous good farming were 

 placed in the schedule, with the intimation that it ought 

 to be paid for." 



Mr Rowlandson himself made an award of excess 

 value in consideration of large consumption of cake, and 

 very considerable improvement, and it was not appealed 

 against. 



Mr Punchard says : " We have a practice among the 

 local valuers of varying the rate of compensation. If we 

 find a man has been continuously farming high, we 

 allow him a higher rate of compensation than when it 

 has been partial or casual." 



Mr C. S. Read strongly supports compensation for 

 continuous good farming, and wishes to put into it 

 cleanliness and thorough working of the land. 



Sir John Lawes would approve of compensation for 

 the fertihty accumulated in grass well laid down and 

 liberally fed. 



Mr Middleton says that an incoming tenant would 

 rather pay compensation to the man who had been 

 farming high for twenty years, than to a man who had 

 been farming for only three years. He would get better 

 value. 



