13 HEREFORDSHIRE AND MONMOUTHSHIRE. 



at i\Iicliaelmas ; and the incoming tenant has a right of entering at 

 Lady-day, to prepare the wheat stubble for turnips, and the fallow land 

 for turnip or other crops. The incoming tenant has a right to put 

 stock on tlie fallows, but not on any other part of the farm, and to sow 

 seeds in the growing crops, but he has no power of entry to prepare 

 the clover-land for wheat till the 29th of September. The dung usually 

 belon!>;s to the landlord, who has also a claim for dilapidations, which 

 are irenerally enforced, such as for dilapidations of premises, and 

 waste upon the soil. If there is any injury by cross-cropping or 

 neglect of tillage (as Avhen the land is foul with grass, twitch, &c.) 

 the landlord has a legal remedy, and frequently recovers compensation 

 upon those grounds. The tenant has no claim for compensation for 

 any kind of improvements, and there is no custom that gives him 

 anything. 



HprofonMiirc and Monmouthshire— IXia time of entry is chiefly at 

 Candlemas-day, the 2nd of February. The notice to quit is given on or 

 before the previous 1st of August. Yearly tenancies prevail, leases are 

 the exception. The outgoing tenant on the 2nd of February is entitled 

 to an awaygoing crop of wheat upon one-third of his arable land ; he 

 receives from the incoming tenant the value of the clover-seeds sown, 

 and of the acts of husbandry in planting them, viz., sowing and harrow- 

 ing. The outgoing tenant keeps the dwelling-house and fold-yards, 

 and also one inclosure of grass land near the fold (locally termed a 

 " boozy pasture "), until the 1st of ?Iay, with the exception of two 

 rooms"^ in the house for servants, and stable for the horses, which the 

 incoming tenant may claim. The incoming tenant receives possession 

 of the whole of his occupation, excepting, as before mentioned, on the 

 2nd of February ; he has no acts of husbandry nor unexhausted manures 

 to pay for, and he receives the manure made in the winter by the out- 

 going tenant's stock without charge. The outgoing tenant has the 

 right to cut his awaygoing crop of wheat; he has also the power to 

 defer thrashing the same to any period previous to the 1st of May after 

 he has harvested his crop, thereby, if so inclined, depriving the incoming 

 tenant of any wheat straw during the first winter. This absurd custom 

 is to a great extent done away with by special agreements, making it 

 compulsory for the outgoing tenant to sell and the incoming tenant to 

 purchase the wheat crop at a valuation previous to harvest. In the 

 hop districts the poles are generally valued to the incoming tenant ; it 

 is of course his interest, but it is not compulsory upon him to take to 

 them. (Three-fourths of the hops known as the "Worcestershire 

 plantation " are grown in Herefordshire.) No comi^ensation for drain- 



