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f^ict, np to a quitting:. Having been so imposed upon at starting, they 

 feel justified in playing the same tricks upon their quitting. 



T\liere the tenants have a right to remuneration for dressings and 

 half-dressings, they are paid for the manure, the vaUic of which is 

 increased by cake ; the value of the cake is taken into consideration in 

 the value of the manure ; but not as a proportion of the cost of the 

 cake. There is not much difficulty in ascertaining the value of the 

 manure while it is in the yard ; though there is after it has been carried 

 out and mixed with the soil, even that from which no crop has been 

 taken; and the difficulty is of course increased with half-dressings. 

 The landlord, if it is inconvenient to lay out the money on draining, 

 allows at the end of the holding (where the tenant is holding by the 

 year) for a certain number of years a portion of the outlay of drainage, 

 calculated according to the number of years, and according to the 

 quality of the draining. 



Draining some few years ago was of a very inferior quality to what it 

 is now ; it used to be done with the mole plough, and with bushes ; but 

 now that draining is improved in its quality, and tile-drainiug is carried 

 on extensively, landlords are enlarging the number of years over which 

 those allowances extend. Many of them have made arrangements that 

 for any drainage done within ten or twelve years, the tenant shall be 

 allowed on quitting a valuation in tenths or twelfths, as may be agTeed. 

 Naked fallows are not very much practised ; but whether they are naked 

 or bearing a green crop, they are equally paid for, the only difference 

 being that the seed is added in the latter case. The landowners have 

 bought up, in many instances, the half-dressings and half-fallows, as 

 those allowances have proved so onerous to the incoming tenant, and 

 have a tendency to lower the rents of the farms. In this respect it is, 

 perhaps, the most expensive of all the English counties. 



It is the habit, in making a clear fallow, in Surrey, that the ploughing 

 should be repeated four times; and they are very frequently done at 

 improper seasons. It is difficult for an arbitrator to say in October 

 how they were done at the time, though there would be none in giving 

 compensation for the foulness of the laud, which valuers will not con- 

 sider. The system of valuations has grown up and greatly extended in 

 Surrey for a good many years. It originated when prices were higher 

 than they are now ; but it has been of gradual growth, and there are 

 still attempts to increase it. There has been an attempt, since the 

 Tithe Commutation Act converted tithes into a reut-charge, to add to 

 the cost of the fallows the tithe rent-charge upon the acres coming for 

 fallow, in addition to the rent and taxes ; but the thing is better under- 

 stood now, and has been very properly resisted. When a tenant entering 



