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in the last year, and for the clover seeds and the sowing thereof in tlic 

 preceding spring. In many instances it is the custom to allow a 

 certain sum for the clover and hean stubbles, but this is generally 

 considered unfair and undesirable. On the hght lands they grow all 

 the fallows Avith root crops ; whereas, on the heavy land they grow only 

 a portion. The outgoing tenant carts the manure for the crop, and is 

 paid both for the muck and cartage. Tares are sometimes grown on a 

 part of the heavy land fallows, in which case the rent; and rates are not 

 allowed, and the tillages after the removal of the crop alone are paid 

 for. The outgoing tenant is paid for all sheep-folding, provided no 

 after-crop has been taken from the land. If any straw remains uncon- 

 verted into manure, the outgoing tenant receives a nominal price for 

 the same, and also for stover or old hay left over from former years. 

 It is usual to mow but half the pastures of the farm, though in some 

 districts the whole can be mown with impunity, and the custom of the 

 country compels it to be paid for at the price per ton which duly 

 appointed valuers may determine. The incoming tenant often finds the 

 clover and the turnip seeds, and does the sowing thereof, but this is a 

 matter of arrangement ; and he also pays 3s. per acre for the groundago 

 or feed of the young clover. The straw, chaff, and colder of the crop 

 just harvested are the property of the landlord or incoming tenant ; and 

 the custom compels his successor to thrash, dress, and deliver the corn 

 of the outgoing tenant. October the 11th is the day on which the old 

 and new hire ceases and commences. 



Surrey. — Where the full custom of the country is spoken of, and the 

 tenant speaks of being paid a full valuation, according to the custom of 

 the country, it means that he is paid for dressings and half-dressings of 

 dung, lime, and sheep foldings ; for ploughings and ftillows, including 

 the rent and taxes of the same, half-fallows, young seeds, and leys, the 

 underwoods down to the stem, and hay and straw at a feeding price : 

 the hay and straw being at a market price where the half-dressings are 

 not paid for. These valuations are, according to the custom, settled by 

 two valuers, or their umpire. Fraud takes place principally in the 

 half-dressings; by which is generally meant, in this county, those 

 manurings from which only one crop of corn has been taken. The 

 " dressing " is dung in the yards, made in the ordinary course of culti- 

 vation. Where manure has been put on at a distance of time, it is 

 exceedingly difficult to check both the quantity and quality of the 

 dressings, and very false returns are made of it. In many cases where 

 farms are about to be given up, tenants scatter down an inferior and 

 smaller quantity of manure, and claim for it as dressing ; they work, in 



