82 Rents ^ Wages, and Profits in Agriculture 



capital has been very generally adopted in 

 recent legislation, and if the Agricultural 

 Holdings Acts have failed, it is rather owing 

 to the practical difficulty of working than 

 to any bias being retained in favour of the 

 landlord. It is true that at the present time 

 there is some demand for a further extension 

 of the powers of the tenant. It is beyond 

 the scope of this inquiry to express an 

 opinion on the actual merits of the present 

 proposals, but the bearing of the general 

 results of this broad historical survey may 

 be found to have some interest. In con- 

 clusion, to summarise the main results : 

 taking the history of the relations of 

 landlord and tenant in England from the 

 time of the establishment of tenant farming, 

 the rents obtained seem to have been very 

 reasonable compared with the profits of the 

 farmer. No doubt on occasions, and in 

 exceptional times of transition, there may 



