24. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SOUTH. 



generally used) is the same as for bones. In some cases manure has 

 been led into the farm, and has been allowed for. The custom in part 

 of South Xottinghamshire would allow it. Probablj stable manure 

 led from the town would not be allowed for after the first crop. In 

 some parts of the county an allowance has been made for drainage ; 

 for shallow draining (three feet) seven years, deducting a seventh each 

 3'ear, are allowed, and for deeper draining (ten, twelve, or twenty feet) 

 ten years. The allowance would not be enforced as a custom of the 

 country, but only as the custom of certain estates. In some instances 

 the tiles arc given ; but generally they are put in under the superin- 

 tendence of the landlord. In the ordinary farm agreements, there 

 are generally special tenant-right agreements with reference to bones, 

 rapccake, and rapedust. In many instances the landlord finds materials 

 for the buildings, in others he does them altogether, and in others he 

 does nothing. The houses and barns are generally put up by the land- 

 lord ; but any increase in the buildings is often made entirely by the 

 tenant. Where the tenants erect buildings themselves, they arc con- 

 structed on wooden posts so that they may be removed. 



Nottinghamshire {South). — By the custom, wheat upon fallow, seed 

 and labour, and the rates and taxes for one year, are paid for ; and in 

 many cases two-thirds of the fallow crop are allowed to the outgoing 

 tenant. The entry is at Lady-day, and the outgoing tenant is paid 

 rates and taxes, which is termed seed and labour valuation. That takes 

 in a year's rates and taxes, besides making the fallows, the seed, and 

 the sowing. The customs vary very much even in the same villages : 

 it is the practice of each estate rather than the custom of the country. 

 There is not generally any compensation to the outgoing tenant for 

 improvements by bones, nor by artificial manure ; but cake compensa- 

 tion is granted in some instances. In some parts the manure made 

 upon the farm belongs to the tenant, and in others it does not. Some- 

 times the crop is valued to the incoming tenant ; that is termed the 

 open-field custom. The outgoing crop is taken by valuation, and if 

 not taken, the outgoing tenant would get his crop. In the case of 

 Avheat sown upon clover, the ploughing, seed, and labour, and the 

 herbage from ]\Iichaelmas to Lady-day are allowed by the custom, and 

 so for all the wheat sown upon pea or bean stubbles. Increased value 

 is \mi upon the manure when valued if the tenant has purchased oilcake. 

 Lime is always paid for by the general custom when no white crops 

 have been taken. There is also an allowance for drainage, of five or six 

 years upon the labour or tiles that have been used by the tenant, when 

 he finds both. The general custom in some districts is for the landlord 



