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I therefore recommend that laying down of permanent 

 pasture should be transferred to Part III, or, in other 

 words, permitted without restriction as to consent or 

 notice, and further approve of the new item of Part III, 

 recommended by Mr C. S. Read and by the Central 

 Chamber, that compensation should be given for 

 temporary pasture, if two years down or longer, and the 

 land in clean condition. 



Other Improvements. 



The desire to have compensation for home-grown corn 

 consumed on the holding is practically. universal among 

 tenant farmers, and has become keener in proportion as 

 low prices and bad seasons have compelled farmers to 

 use a larger proportion of corn for feeding purposes. In 

 some counties the grievance is greater than others. 

 Thus in Cornwall, " nearly all the corn grown is con- 

 sumed on the farm ; this Act is unfair, as it only 

 compensates for bought corn." It will be perfectly 

 easy to arrive at the proper amount by estimating the 

 crop, and having a record of the amount sold off. 



" In a very large proportion of the farms south of 

 Edinburgh, towards the Lammermoors, almost the whole 

 of the grain crops is consumed on the land, and without 

 any compensation." 



Mr Treadwell, who uses his own corn largely, to the 

 value of, in 1891, ^^981 ; in 1892, £772; in 1893, £g6T, 

 in 1894, £667, is strongly in favour of compensation for 

 its use. 



The great majority of witnesses of practical experience 

 favour the proposal, and think fraud could be prevented. 



" I am quite convinced that it can be carried out in 

 fairness to both parties, but you must put the whole 

 responsibility upon the tenant, of proving that he has 

 first grown the corn and then used it." 



Mr C. S. Read thinks there is no more difficulty hi 

 checking fraud as to home consumption of corn grown 

 on the farm than as to taking it off one farm and putting 



