l86 FRUIT FARMING 



agents are ready to meet the wishes of a tenant 

 possessing- capital and energy. In order, however, 

 to guard against an unfair advantage being taken by 

 an improving tenant, it is customary on many estates 

 for the words " under no circumstances shall this 

 tenancy be considered as a market garden " are in- 

 serted in most leases (under recent Acts this cannot 

 now be done). In other cases where the tenant 

 finds the trees and plants, it is not unusual for an 

 agreement to be made whereby the tenant at the end 

 of his term receives a capitalised sum equal to — 

 years' purchase on the increased letting value of the 

 holdings, to be then determined by agreement or 

 valuation. In my opinion the Act would have been 

 improved if a definite number of years had been fixed 

 under which compensation could be claimed, as bush 

 fruits are practically useless after lo to 15 years. 

 Plums begin to decline after 25 years, and Apples 

 after 40 years; but under a 14 years' lease a tenant 

 should have reaped his profit on all outlav, except 

 perhaps on a Cherry orchard. Undoubtedly the best 

 plan is for the tenant to be a freeholder. 



T.\BLE OF WEIGHTS AXD MEASURES FOR LONDON* 

 MARKETS. 



In order to arrive at a better undcrstandint; as to 

 weights and measures for the marketing- of fruit, a 

 Conference of the Potato and Fruit Trades' .Association 

 and the National Federation was held, and the 

 follnwiiig standard, uniform, nett weight packages, to 

 he known as '• Thr National I'ederation Standard 

 Weights," was agreed to : — 



