32 WARWICKSHIRE, WESTMORELAND. 



having been useless to the tenant, form a large proportion of the valua- 

 tion of tenant-right to the incoming tenant. The coming-in upon a 

 Sussex form, where those tillages and half-tillages and rent and taxes arc 

 paid, is very heavy ; and the tenant-right is very frequently mortgaged. 

 Everything, labour, rent, and taxes, is paid for naked fallows, but 

 nothing for any cultivation from which the tenant has taken one crop. 

 If manure is made in a yard used for feeding cattle, the valuer will 

 place a different price upon it from what he would do if it was merely 

 a straw-yard in which the cattle had been fed upon straw only. With 

 regard to turnips, the ploughings, sowings, and dressings are taken into 

 the valuation, from the outgoing to the incoming tenant. Rapecake, 

 nitrate of soda, rags, and guano, are all allowed for, according to their 

 relative value, llapecake is more lasting tlian rags, and rags than 

 guano. There is no compensation for buikling, as it is considered that 

 buildings erected on the estate become part of the fee of that estate. 

 Stone lime is very much used in Sussex, and is often brought from a 

 great distance, and the outgoing tenant is allowed half-price for it after 

 one crop. 



Warwichsldre. — The time of entry upon farms in "Warwickshire was 

 formerly Lady-day, but Michaelmas "takes" are now becoming more 

 general. The entry being at Lady-day, the outgoing tenant takes the 

 following crop of wheat, except an arrangement is made for payment : 

 the agreements are now generaUy made so that the outgoing tenant 

 cannot hold it, but it must be valued to the incoming tenant. By the 

 custom the outgoing tenant takes the value of it, whether it be in -the 

 crop or in money. If a change of tenancy takes place at Michaelmas, 

 the incoming tenant takes to the wheat sown if it has been regularly 

 fallowed, and in the event of their not agreeing, the outgoing tenant 

 is at liberty to come upon the land and reap it himself. The manure 

 on the premises belongs to the landlord. If the outgoing tenant has 

 spent cake upon the feeding of his beasts, he could not claim undei' 

 the present custom any compensation. Bones arc not much used 

 except on the sandy soils, and the tinie over which compensation is 

 allowed for them is reduced to three years. No compensation for im- 

 provement of the land is paid by the incoming tenant except for 

 draining. That, according to the custom of many valuers, only extends 

 over three years ; but the time is getting extended. If the landlord 

 does it all, the tenant i)ays five per cent. ; but very generally the land- 

 lord finds the pipes, and the tenant pays for laying them down. 



Westmoreland. — See Cumberland. 



