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upon a farm pays fov such things with the cognizance of the landlord, 

 he is entitled to be paid when he quits. The disadvantage of the Surrey 

 tenant-right is, that the same money is paid for the slovenly as for the 

 good farming, as the valuers never take the bad state of the fallow into 

 account. 



Sussex. — The time of entry on farms in Susses is Michaelmas, and 

 generally the 29th of September in preference to the 10th of October. 

 The customary payments by incoming tenants differ very much in the 

 different districts of the county. Taking the boundary on the north as 

 the South Downs, HamjDshire on the west, on the east the Adur, and 

 the sea on the south, the customs north of the Downs and east of the 

 Adur differ very much from those in the other parts of the county. In 

 part of Sussex, west of the river Adur, the customary payments by the 

 incoming to the outgoing tenant are confined very much to acts of 

 Imsbandry, the hay at a feeding-off price, and the fodder of the straw. 

 In the Weald the payments are extended to the payment for dressings 

 and half-dressings of dung and lime, and to the payment for fallows and 

 tillage performed on the fallows, and the rent and taxes thereon, and for 

 leys. The payment for dressings is for the manures made on the land, 

 and from which no crop has been produced. Half- dressings comprise 

 the dung from which one crop has been produced. So with regard to 

 lime, where no crop has been produced, or if it be in the heap on the 

 farm, it is paid for at the full cost. If it has produced one straw crop, 

 then it is paid for at half the cost. 



On heavy laud in the "Wealds of Sussex, Kent, Hampshire, and 

 Surrey, it is usual to make naked fallows. The tenant has received 

 no advantage from the expensive course of ploughing and cleaning into 

 which the field has been put, and therefore it is customary to allow 

 him for that which is a benefit to his successor, and which is no benefit 

 to him. They are also paid in the Weald and east of Sussex for the 

 hedgerows and underwood, if included in the occupation. When they 

 enter upon a farm, they enter upon the underwood also, and pay to 

 their predecessors in proportion to the number of years' growth of the 

 underwood. The principle of underwood is applied also to the hedges, 

 which are often very wide, and approaching the nature of a copse, or 

 "shaws " as they are termed. They are allowed for the growth up to 

 a certain number of years. By the custom these would be valued to 

 the stem, unless there is any special arrangement to the contrary. 

 The buildings are usually maintained by the landlord providing the 

 materials and the tenant applying them. Acts of husbandry on the 

 summer fallows, with the rent and taxes that arise out of the land, 



