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one most jrencrally followed. There is very little land let npon lease, 

 and the usual tenancies are yearly ones determinable by a six-months' 

 notice from either party. The necessaiy farm buildings are generally 

 erected by the landlord, and afterwards kept in repair by the tenant ; 

 but in some cases they are put up by the tenants under a special 

 agreement. 



Lincolnshire {South). — The usual compensations in South Lincoln- 

 sliire are for tillages, manure, and draining. The whole of the last 

 year's bill for bones is allowed when only a crop of turnips has been 

 taken ; and one-fourth part of the cake bill is allowed, which is 

 ascertained by producing the bill of the last year. In the eastern part 

 of Lincolnshire, where claying is carried on to a considerable extent, 

 the outlay is spread over four years, and one-fourth is deducted for 

 every year. On the heath land, when a tenant receives notice to quit, 

 the usual plan, where there is a good understanding between the land- 

 lord and tenant, is that the tenant receiving notice applies to the agent 

 to know whether he is to continue to cultivate the land in the way he 

 has been in the habit of doing ; and if the agent has confidence in him, 

 and he is not leaving from any fault that the agent or landlord has to 

 find with him, he is told to continue the same manner of cultivation, 

 with the assurance that he will be paid for all acts of husbandry per- 

 formed between Michaelmas and Lady-day, that is, sowing wheat and 

 ploughing the land ready for the turnip fallows, &c. He is paid 

 for the herbage upon the land that is sown with wheat seed. If he 

 is not empowered to go on and farm in the usual manner, the tenant 

 would have no claim for manure used after the time of his notice, nor 

 for the wheat if sown in opposition to the instruction of the landlord or 

 his agent. 



Usually speaking, the tenant farms under an agreement that gives the 

 incoming tenant the right of entry after a specified time — after the 10th 

 of October, for sowing wheat ; and after the 1st of February, to prepare 

 the land for the spring corn, peas, and beans. After the first of February 

 the incoming tenant may plough up the stubbles on paying for any 

 sheep-keeping there may be. The lease ends on the 5th of April, and 

 the notice to quit is given before the 10th of October. The outgoing 

 tenant has no rights for acts of husbandry from October to April with- 

 out permission from the landlord or his agent. If there was a hostile 

 feeling between the outgoing tenant and the landlord, the land is, 

 according to the system, left abandoned as to cultivation from October 

 to the {ith of April, when the incoming tenant can claim to enter. If 

 there is no agreement the latter could not come on even to sow the 



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