28 STAFFOrvDSHIRE, SUFFOLK. 



to whom the mauurc belongs, for the use of the farm, in either case. 

 The principal tenancies are from year to year ; but in a great many 

 instances they are for seven years. 



Staffordshire. — The period of entry is Lady-day. The incoming 

 tenant pays for the grass seeds ; he pays also for any tiUage that mtiy 

 liave been done to the fallows, and he divides with the outgoing tenant 

 for the v/heat crop. He takes half where it is a brush crop, and one- 

 third where it is a fallow croj) ; the incoming tenant also pays for the 

 manure, and for the straw and hay that may be on the farm at the time 

 at the consuming price. In the north, the district on the clay, there 

 are some considei-ablc naked follows. For wheat fallows, where it has 

 been really a naked follow during the whole of th.e summer, the out- 

 going tenant takes two-thirds of the crop. A brush crop is a crop of 

 wheat that does not follow a naked fallow ; but one, under any other 

 circumstances, after clover, roots, or green crops of any description. 

 As regards compensation, the tenants fall back upon the custom of 

 the district ; and those customs probably Avere fixed when nothing was 

 known of artificial food or artificial manure, or drainage. There is no 

 custom to show to allow compensation to the tenant for marling, or 

 for the a})plication of artificial manure of any description. There is, 

 in fact, no other custom as between incoming and outgoing tenant than 

 the compensation for seeds, straw, and hay. The customs ap[>ly chiefly 

 to the light soils of Staffordshire ; but there is very little difference 

 in the whole county of StaflPord. So various and contradictory are 

 the customs of tenancy, even in the same district, that now^ the 

 settlement of all such questions are left with expei'ienced arbitrators, 

 who make as nearly as they can an equitable adjustment between the 

 parties. 



Suffolk. — There is no tenant-right in the county, beyond that recog- 

 nized by the custom of the country, and by the leases or agreements 

 generally granted in the neighbourhood. Quite one-third of the county 

 is holden upon a custom without any written agreement ; but in every 

 instance where leases exist, the covenants for entering and quitting 

 the occupation are distinctly laid down, and fully acted up to. The 

 custom of the country varies in diflerent neighbourhoods : but where 

 the understanding is verbal, the custom which exists in that particular 

 district is considered mutually binding on each party. The outgoing 

 tenant is always paid for the rents and rates incurred on the last year's 

 fallows, and for all reasonable tillage, such as ploughing and harrowing, 

 expended thereon. lie is also paid for the muck, hay, and stover made 



