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the land, such as ploughing, sowing, &c., up to a short time before 

 quitting, and is paid for the same by valuation. One-year " seeds " are 

 valued to the incoming tenant, but two-year "seeds" are not. The 

 outgoing tenant is paid the whole cost of growing the turnip or other 

 root crop, including artificial manures. If it be a Lady-day taking, the 

 root crop belongs to the outgoing tenant, if a Michaelmas taking, it is 

 left for the incoming tenant, the outgoing tenant being paid the same 

 in both cases. Dung left in the yards or hauled on to the land belongs 

 to the incoming tenant, who pays for all the labour of preparing or 

 hauling out the same. Sainfoin is pai.d for according to its age, &c. 

 Vetches grown and fed on the land are paid for— that is, the ploughing, 

 sowing, &c., but not the seed. All exceptions to the above payments 

 are made by special agreement. The foregoing customs have been in 

 practice for many years, with scarcely any alteration. Those in the 

 vale of Gloucestershire differ in many respects as to cropping, selling 

 of hay, straw, &c. ; but the valuations between outgoing and in- 

 coming tenants do not differ so much. The Cotswold Hills are the 

 chief corn growing district, the vale being chiefly pasture or small 

 arable farms. 



Eamj^shire.—The usual time of giving up farms is at Michaelmas ; 

 and the custom, when the lease is to expire next Michaelmas, generally 

 allows the new tenant to have access some time before Lady-day. He 

 would come on to prepare his turnip crop, and have about June or July 

 a certain portion of land to enter upon to prepare his wheat season ; and 

 there is nothing else he would be permitted to do until after harvest. 

 He would first come to prepare his fallow for the ensuing year, and for 

 the wheat a short time before Michaelmas. The dung belongs to the land- 

 lord ; in fact there is not a single thing the outgoing tenant can claim ; he 

 Avould feed the stock next year on the hay and straw grown in the last 

 year of his tenancy, but he cannot dispose of it ; still he may keep the 

 incoming tenant out, and say, I will have the yards and fodder myself, 

 and consume the hay. The incoming tenant has no claim to any hay 

 unless he purchase it by agreement. 



Herffordshire.—The general custom is to enter upon the fallows at 

 Lady-day, commencing tenancy the Michaelmas following. Every tenant 

 is allowed to quit as he entered, if he can prove that entry, unless he be 

 bound by an agreement to the contrary ; if not, the custom is laid down 

 in the regular way, for a certain portion of the fallows to be given up at 

 a certain time. With respect to the straw and manure, he quits as he 

 enters. The outgoing tenant gives up the farm, and his tenancy ceases 



