34 WORCESTERSHIRE, YORKSHIRE — EAST RIDING. 



chalks, with deposits in the larger valleys, and is appropriated to the 

 growth of corn and tlie rearing (and latterly, to some extent, the 

 fattening) of sheep, and is subject to the same customs as the War- 

 minster district. The incoming tenant takes possession of the farm on 

 the 25th of JIarch, by paying for all tillages ; there is but a small pro- 

 portion of arable land in the Devizes neighbourhood : it is generally 

 grazing and dairy land. The tillages are paid for, and the labour of 

 manuring. At present the outgoing tenants would have no compensa- 

 tion if tlicy drained the land themselves. When draining is done, the 

 usual practice is for the landlord to find pipes, and the tenant to do the 

 hauling and labour : but as the holdings are from year to year, and no 

 compensation is given for unexhausted improvements, drainage is not 

 cai-ried to half the extent it otherwise would. 



Worcosfershlre. — There is no definite time for the incoming tenant to 

 enter upon and quit his farm, but Lady-day is most usual. The off- 

 going tenant allows his successor to commence ploughing the wheat 

 stubbles on the 1st of January previous to quitting, and does not turn 

 stock upon the mowing meadows after Candlemas-day. He is paid 

 for the seed and labour of sowing clover seeds upon his lands bearing 

 the last crop of Lent grain, and leaves one-third of the olfgoing wheat 

 crop for the landlord or incoming tenant (after the value of the tithe is 

 deducted), and all the straw. There is no compensation for any kind 

 of improvements or manures, unless specially provided for ; and if any 

 buildings have been erected by the outgoing tenant, he is not allowed 

 to remove them, although they have been put up with the landlord's 

 permission. All the manure belongs to the landlord, and the ofigoing 

 tenant has till the 1st of May, after quitting, the use of the fold-yard, 

 and a boozy pasture adjoining or near, for the purpose of consuming 

 his hay and straw of the last year's growth ; and also a room in the 

 house for the servant in attendance upon such stock as are consuming 

 the hay and straw. Since the Tithe Commutation Act agreements 

 have become much more general, and the custom is but seldom 

 appealed to. 



YorksJiire — East Jiidinf/.— ThevQ is hardly one single instance of an 

 agricultural lease in this riding : all are yearly holdings, and these are 

 almost universally from Lady-day. With regard to acts of husbandry, 

 the offgoing tenant is entitled to a waygoing crop, varying from one- 

 third to one-fourth of the arable according to the description of land 

 he farms. Upon the wold part of the riding they have one-quarter 

 part of the arable land as a waygoing crop ; upon the stronger soils 



