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wheat, and the outgoing tenant could not be compelled to do so after 

 receiving notice to quit. The incoming tenant entering upon the land 

 after the 1st of February would have a right to make use of all the 

 manure that was made u})on the farm from the produce of the farm, and 

 the outgoing tenant would be allowed compensation for bones and lime 

 and oilcake, and the other matters. He would have no compensation 

 for acts of husbandry between the lOtli of October and the 1st of 

 February ; but if he continued to consume oilcake, he would be entitled 

 to be paid for a proportion of all the cake used up to the 5th of April. 

 The customs as to the allowance for bones and marling, or chalking, 

 have been upheld in a court of law. The draining custom is that when 

 the landlord finds the tiles, and the tenant only finds the labour, the 

 expense is divided into three years. As to the cost of the labour, if the 

 tenant has had three crops he receives nothing for that; if he has only 

 had two crops, he receives one-third ; and if one crop, two-thirds. When 

 the tenant has been at the whole expense of the draining, it is divided 

 into seven years in the same way. The custom for drainage is not a 

 customary allowance made by all landlords, but that for bones and 

 manure is customary with all. Five per cent, is charged when the land- 

 lord does all the work of drainage, and the landlord invariablyjrats up 

 the buildings throughout the estate. Draining is now very much done 

 by the Drainage Commissioners, the tenant paying interest on the 

 money expended. The practice of the Lincolnshire valuers is to set off 

 dilapidations in buildings against tenant-right; and that set-off is 

 extended to the state of the farm as to clean husbandry. The foul state 

 of the fallows would not enter into the calculation unless there had been 

 cross-cropping or gross neglect, and then reductions would be made. 



Miildlesex. — The entry is generally on September 29, and the holdings 

 are, to a great extent, from year to year. In leases it is almost univer- 

 sally stipulated that the incoming tenant should come on the farm to 

 sow clover seeds in April. If the outgoing tenant sows them, he is 

 paid for them by the incoming tenant. The latter sometimes takes to 

 the fallows about April, in which case he is allowed stable-room for his 

 horses. In the ordinary twelve-months' holdings the incoming tenant 

 often makes a similar agreement. The landlord generally finds tiles 

 for draining, and the tenant the labour ; but if the former does all, he 

 charges five per cent. In consequence of the proximity to the metro- 

 polis, hay and straw are always allowed to be sold ; but by the custom 

 a load of manure must be brought back for every one of hay and straw 

 that leaves the farm. If a tenant pays for the manure on coming in 

 (which is almost always the case), he is paid for it on leaving. The 



