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allowed ; but these agTcements are by no means general. One-fonrtli 

 of the oilcake of the last two years is sometimes allowed, if no corn crop 

 has been grown from it. There is also a three-years' allowance for 

 bones on the lighter soils, and a two-years' one for lime. According to 

 the custom of the country a tenant cannot remove or sell off any hay, 

 straw, or vegetable roots, without permission of the landlord ; or turn 

 any permanent grass pastures into arable land. 



Lincolnshire {XortJi — The Wolds). — The usual period for entering 

 upon fixnns is Lady-day (the Gth of April) for arable land, and old May- 

 day (the 13th of May) for old pasture land and buildings. Upon some 

 f\u-ms the outgoing tenant is entitled to an away-going crop of corn 

 varying in quantity, which is usually taken by the incoming tenant at 

 a valuation. The outgoing tenant generally sows all the wheat in the 

 autumn before he quits, and is paid for seed and labour. He generally 

 ploughs once all land in turn to be fallowed, and sometimes he sows 

 the spring corn ; and for both of these he is paid. The outgoing 

 tenant is also paid the following allowances by the landlord or his 

 incoming tenant on quitting, viz. : For draining, Avhere the landlord 

 finds the tiles and the tenant puts them in (which is the most usual 

 com'se), the allowance extends over four years, one-fourth of the cost 

 being deducted off for each crop taken by the outgoing tenant ; for 

 marling and chalking, the allowance extends over ten years ; for lime, 

 five years ; for claying sand or peaty soils, five years ; for bones used 

 within twelve months preceding, two-thirds if used dry, and one-half 

 if dissolved in acid, and for those used the previous year one-third if 

 used diy, and one-fourth if dissolved in acid ; for guano or rape-dust 

 used within twelve months preceding for turnips or other green crops, 

 two-thirds of the cost ; for oilcake given to cattle and sheep, one-third 

 of the cost of that used within twelve months preceding, and one-sixth 

 of that used in the previous year ; and for seeds and clover sown within 

 twelve months of quitting, the whole of the cost of seed and the labour 

 of sowing is allowed, where they have not been stocked after th'e 1st 

 of November, and up to tiiat time only with sheep and pigs. These 

 allowances are ascertained by two arbitrators, one selected by the out- 

 going and the other by the landlord or his incoming tenant, or by an 

 umpire to be appointed by the arbitrators in case of their disagreement. 

 They are varied upon some few properties by agreement ; but upon a 

 considerable part of the district tliey are made by custom, and not 

 inserted in the farm agreements. Formerly the allowances were con- 

 fined to acts of husbandry only. The rotation of croi)S varies on dif- 

 ferent soils and in dili'erent localities, but the four-field course is the 



