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ing is made to the outgoing tenant ; but latterly landlords have incurred 

 all the outlay for draining, the tenant paying a percentage. Cider mills 

 and presses for making cider are generally the property of the landlord, 

 as well as any fixed thrashing machines. The takings in Monmouth- 

 shire are generally at Candlemas, as in Herefordshire, and the customs 

 almost the same, with the exception of that of "land share," by virtue 

 of which the incoming tenant claims one-fifth of the outgoing tenant's 

 wheat crop, if on a fallow, and one-third if sown on a clover-ley. This 

 custom, which for obvious reasons frequently operates most unjustly, is 

 also common in the lower part of Gloucestershire ("West). 



HunUngdonshire. — The holdings are for the most part from Lady-day. 

 After a tenant has given or received notice to quit, he is allowed to sow 

 with wheat only such lands as the landlord or his steward may think 

 fit, and in all respects according to his or their direction, or else to 

 allow the incoming tenant to enter on such lands at any time after the 

 1st day of October. He must also allow the landlord or his incoming 

 tenant to enter on the lands proper to be sown with beans or peas after 

 the 2nd of February, and upon the land proper to be sown with corn or 

 grain or seeds any time after the Ist day of March in the last year. 

 He is paid for the herbage of the land so entered on, as also for all 

 bones or other artificial manures purchased and used in the production 

 of turnips or coleseed in the last year, as well as for claying fen laud. 

 For lime, four years' dropping, he is allowed oue-fourth of the cost in 

 equal proportions at the end of every year from the time of application 

 of the same, and also for young seeds if sown with the first crop after 

 fallows, and not injured by sheep or cattle. He has also a fair valua- 

 tion for labour done on dead fallows, in such last year, if the said 

 fallows be on lands unfit for turnips or coleseed; such valuation to be 

 made and determined on by two disinterested persons, one to be chosen 

 by each party, or their umpire, whose determination shall be final. In 

 cases where the outgoing tenant does the seeding, or any of it, he is 

 allowed for all seed and labour. The outgoing tenant is allowed one- 

 third for all linseed cake or other artificial food used in the last year 

 before quitting. He is also allowed for all carriage on materials for 

 buildings and tiles for draining, and for draining done in the five years 

 previous to quitting, in the followmg proportions ; viz. : For that done 

 within the last year the whole cost ; for that done one year, four-fifths ; 

 two years, three-fifths ; three years, two-fifths ; and four years, one-fifth 

 of the cost, after which no claim will be allowed for underdraining or 

 carriage on building materials. The buildings are made by the land- 

 lord, and the tenant keeps them in repair. A great deal of the draining 



