KENT. 15 



The dang is valued in the Weald of Kent and Sussex in the same way, 

 at a feed price, partly acccording to measure and partly according to 

 quality. If cake or corn have been used, more is paid for the manure 

 so made. The custom in the eastern part of Kent is not to pay 

 for so much ; the dung there is principally the property of the land- 

 lord. Tlie land is, moreover, of a better quality, very little fallow 

 is done, and consequently very little is paid for ; the hay is paid 

 for pretty generally in the same way as in the Weald. Mid Kent is 

 better cultivated than the Weald of Kent, and things are paid for 

 higher; hay, and straw, and dung at a market value; and the custom 

 is more certain, though it does not embrace such a variety of things as 

 the mode of cultivation in the Weald of Kent requires. 



The time of entry in the Tenterden part of the county is always at 

 Michaelmas, either the 29th of September or the 11th of October. The 

 outgoing tenant is paid for all tillages of every description. He is paid 

 for hay and straw at a feed price, and for the underwood. In that 

 woody country, he is paid for all drainage, of every description, that is 

 performed with tiles or wood ; if with wood, he is paid for four years : 

 with tiles he is allowed to go back ten years ; that is, a certain amount 

 is deducted each year. Supposing he left at the end of the ninth year he 

 would have 2s. to receive, if the first cost was 20s. Draining has been 

 much more extensively practised in the course of the last few years. 

 All bought manures are paid for, as also are half-mauures ; that is, the 

 half part of what the dung would have been valued at, had it been 

 valued the year before. That applies to artificial manures, but not in the 

 same ratio. The latter are paid for according to their durability ; for 

 instance, guano would be paid one-third of the cost price after one crop 

 off ; for bones or lime the outgoing tenant would be allowed half the 

 sum ; and for carting dung, marl, or mould, there is nothing at all after 

 one crop. Where chalk is used, it is a very permanent job, and the 

 outgoing tenant is paid considerably for it. There is nothing allowed 

 for oilcake except in the shape of the extra price of the manure so made, 

 and the manure made from the straw is put at a different price from 

 the fatting-cake dung. The valuers value the latter from sight : if 

 there is any diflBculty they call for evidence ; when they come to value, 

 it is the custom of the country for parties having a farm to produce the 

 invoice of the artificial manures. There was once no allowance for the 

 improvement of buildings, not even for an oast in a hop district, but 

 now it is generally considered that the tenant has a right to be paid for 

 all buildings erected by him with the landlord's consent. The great 

 value of the woods in Kent is for conversion into hop poles ; and if near 

 cutting, the incoming tenant has a larger sum to pay for the wood. 



