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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



p^re samples of RED STRAW 



IAL DRAINING.-The ■ 



Cltr agricultural ffia?rtt^ 



SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1847. 



t of the Real-Property Committee 

 endment Society given last week, 



Tenant-rights, there is one lead- 

 ature which will immediately have 

 >tice of the agricultural reader as 

 ig and comparatively new expres- 

 .igiiated subject ; and that is the 

 itweeu Improvements and Fixtures. 

 lost called the privilege of compre- 

 i use to advantage the great law of 

 interest, keen and sharp-sighted as 



bne-eyed ; it sees well enough, too 



of the Freehold at once brings the idea 

 j and the difficulties that have sur- 

 brmerword in its agricultural accepta- 

 ess surprising when he considers the 

 d unsettled points that have long hung 

 ir. If he is less skilled upon the agri- 

 jf the question, he is at least without 



wed as a principle if they cannot be 

 ed as a Rule. 



uts are Fixtures : and as such they 

 operty of the Landlord, or the Tenant, 

 >th. They may be capable of removal, 

 Hn-ine or ;i Building, or irremoveable 

 peaking) like Drainage or Enhanced 

 y Law, or want of law, which operates 

 ion of them from the party incurring 

 their establishment, is primarily inju- 





r and a check upon 



rod consequently more gainful 



■"'^er. It a Farm were let, under a condi- 



-«■ tuat Wheat should be grown but once in four 



^wnrs/r ™ ng e ene i: ai1 ^ ™ uld &r as 



«antl 1 Same 1S true of an y clause, 



m. or r r 1Dg t0 ,and ' which diminishes the P ro - 



Tt'e v 1 C pr f 0S})ects ' or tne enterprise of the Tenant. 



'Wislwl •!■ thmg ^ nt is diiriimshed witn its 



' > ''tnity or promise to the borrower. The 



• " ^'Hunt-right therefore is not, like that 



impered with other collateral 



:< 



-■ ■ : 



with it The ultimate advan- 



rings to the giver equally with 



*^ it ma 01 "t l ^ e COm P et ' T i° n I0r iand be 



a constitutes it a scarce 

 another word towards i 



sion of the 



•"<■ a iruin wnic. 



^beu jL ? money is lent > and the inte 

 ^MenHt °V ltt } e > U S° 03 direcl to hin 



■ -..=■ ■,;-.■•.:. ■;..- ,,. 

 f^intel! S dlvid cnd according to the exl 



*^ Hinti ♦ ] u market valu *» ™ d ^e ret 

 uei0n ?8 to all, and j 



i awarded in kind v 



: the habit o 



Owners of Tithes, and Rent-chargi 

 Portions, and Mortgages have no 

 improvements of which' they are ind 



Tiuch reason and justice ini-ht'w.u ,.- ; , 



general system of Tenant-ri-ht :o 

 clauses, extending over the wl 

 Consider it, puzzle over it how 

 complexion it must come at last. 

 tenant cannot prudently invest 

 the return may never be his to r 

 of, neither can the Tenant toi lit 



siast may preach in vain. Tell a man of the ad- liberal dresMU 



vantages of draining his fields, enlarge upon the received, for i 



augmented produce, tlie improved climate, the applied to ext 



diminished labour, lb iktion snx-d <■!:<<•: <t « 



— and leave him under a law which if he die the u uied Wlth ll 



day he has accompl'-: r.irry tlle . ,0 ? d of I' 1 



his draining-tiles and his expended time, skill, and f*l'Jf '"^'Vh 



labour he delights i 

 which he can leave the econouiv 

 after him, the population most mien 



ration from either party to a contract, whether he 

 stand in the position of Landlord or Tenant, and the 

 Contract becomes lopsided : remove it Irom both, 



of each fetters the development of those energies 

 with which mind acts upon matter, by which through 



the freely acting interest of each respective member 



the whole are carried on. The result is that the 

 ultimate sufferer is the Reversioner himself. 

 Quenched motives have acted upon the cultivation 



„fth /. ike crippled limbs. The law ot public 



expediency is frustrated and opposed, wmcti re- 

 quires that land should produce its utmost, and it 

 becomes sufficiently apparent that (in the words ot 

 the Report of the Committee), "a condition ol the 

 Law which has an opposite tendency is let 1 



to the Community in general."— C. W. H. 



ON COMMON SALT. ^ ^ 



"i have made use of salt for many years, both in my 

 farm and garden, and with very l^^^^-J, 



ffinddy murdplied. But 



which it has proved itself most strikingly 



where I could confidently re 



tly peat and part , ; . an d I could «o 



7wStuM^ 



mu herbage, therefore, is <>t tn.» <•■ n- . s. ••• ^ ? 

 refused both by sheep an. I " 



21 feet, at the depth of 2 ^^fj^l * Tbe effec 



