16 LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. 



The outgoing tenant receives according to the age of the wood. Every 

 act of husbandry beneficial to the Incoming tenant is vakied. Labour, 

 rent, and taxes, are allowed for naked fallows, but nothing for any 

 cultivation the tenant has taken one crop from. 



In the Ilythc part of the county the usual entry is at Michaelmas. 

 The manure is always considered to be the property of the landlord ; 

 and the feeding properties of the straw, as also that of the hay (about 

 two- thirds of the real value, or the feed price), are the property of the 

 tenant. The incoming tenant has not the right of entry from Michael- 

 mas for the cultivation of turnips or preparation for wheat, unless a 

 previous agreement has been made to that effect with the outgoing 

 tenant. Terms of agreement from year to year are entered into, Avhicli 

 admit of the incoming tenant entering to prepare for wheat previous to 

 the determination of the late tenancy. The outgoing tenant receives 

 no compensation for oilcake or artificial manure. Durable improve- 

 ments, such as drainage or chalking, are frequently made, but entirely 

 at the hazard of the tenant. There is no security of custom or anything 

 else, unless there is a private agreement, entered into between the land- 

 lord and the tenant, that compensation shall be allowed. 



It is contrary to the custom of the district to allow anything, either 

 yalue or labour, for half-manures. The only allowance made is for 

 labour or any manure from which no crop has been taken, whether it 

 has been carried and spread on the laud or is in the mixen. Where 

 fallows are made by the outgoing tenant the last year, he is always 

 allowed the rent and taxes on them from the previous Michaelmas, 

 together with labour of eveiy kind, including labour on manure, made 

 and carried out ; and if sown with turnips, the cost of the seed and 

 putting in, &c., in fact for everything done to the fallow since the 

 preceding cxop was taken off. When the tenant leaves the farm at 

 Michaelmas, he is frequently permitted by agreement with his landlord 

 to have the use of the buildings to thrash and prepare the corn for the 

 market. 



Lancashire and Cheshire. — The customs between the outgoing and 

 incoming tenants in Lancashire are very limited indeed. A tenant 

 professes to quit his land on the 2nd of February, Avitli the exception 

 of a pasture field, called " the outlet for the cattle." The house, build- 

 ings, and the outlet are given up on the Ist or 12th of May, as the 

 case may be. The tenant leaving his land, therefore, on the 2nd of 

 February, has nothing upon it but the wheat crop, and for that he gets 

 half of the wheat crop allowed him by the incoming tenant, if it is after 

 gi-cen crops (which it is generally) : if it is after the summer fallow, he 



