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there be potatoes, roots, or seeds on the 

 ground, the whole or part of these may be 

 taken by valuation, or left to the outgoing 

 tenant to dispose of as he thinks best. It will, 

 however, obviously be to the advantage of 

 the incoming tenant to take over the roots 

 and seeds, and to pay for such cultivations 

 as may have been carried out. The incoming 

 tenant should not regard these payments as 

 a tax upon his purse, for they are usually 

 to his advantage, and they place him in the 

 same position as the outgoing tenant would 

 have occupied. The better, therefore, the 

 latter has farmed the land, the better for 

 his successor. 



Whether the farm is occupied at Lady Day, 

 Midsummer, or Michaelmas, the garden, or 

 the land which it is intended to convert into 

 a garden, should be handled at once. If a 

 portion of the grass-land is to be brought under 

 garden culture, it should be well trenched at 

 the earliest opportunity — preferably as soon 

 as the grass crop has been removed. Bearing 

 this fact in mind, it is important that the land 

 should be of deep staple, in which case 

 trenching will prove as useful as a good coat 

 of manure. There is probably no process or 

 act of cultivation which is followed by such 



