3l6 AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION 



B. — Recommendations. 



I. — AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACTS. 



The present Agricultural Holdings Acts for England 

 and Scotland should be amended so as to provide as 

 follows : — 



Scope of the Act. 



(i.) Full compensation for the cumulative fertility re- 

 sulting from continuous good farming, irrespective 

 of any arbitrary time limit 



(2.) Freedom to carry out, and compensation for all 

 improvements suitable for the purposes for which 

 the holding is let, whether the landlord consent 

 or not. 



(3.) Tenant's improvements to be classified in two 

 schedules, the first to comprise the more per- 

 manent and costly improvements in respect of 

 which consent shall no longer be requisite, but a 

 notice shall be required ; the second schedule to 

 comprise all other improvements in respect of 

 which neither consent nor notice shall be required. 



(4.) The first schedule should include buildings, 

 except those required for market gardening, 

 silos, irrigation, roads and bridges, provision of 

 water supply, permanent fences, embankments, 

 the reclaiming of unenclosed v/aste land, and 

 drainage. 



(5.) The laying dovv-n of permanent and temporary 

 pasture and grasses, the consumption of home- 

 grown corn and other produce, the remainder of 

 the improvements now classed in Part I of the 

 First Schedule to the Act, the improvements now 

 classed in Part III of the First Schedule to the 

 Act, and all other improvements not specifically 

 placed in the proposed first schedule, for which 



