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are not paid exactly what is due to tliem every week. The sys- 
tem is to pay them fortnightly, Aylesby one week and Riby and 
Rothwell the next, a little less than is coming to them ; and at 
the end of the quarter the accounts are made up, — the labourers 
being debited with the cash they have received, and the corn, 
mutton, &c., which they have bought (below market price), — and 
the balance is paid over to them. The remainder of the book- 
keeping is done on an ordinary double-entry system. 
In making up the account of profit and loss, great care is taken 
to allow for the depreciation in value of horses, implements, &c. 
Horses are credited to profit and loss at the prices paid for them, 
and a depreciation-charge of 15 per cent, on these amounts is 
placed on the debit side of the account every year. The deprecia- 
tion charge on implements is calculated at 20 per cent, annually. 
The general tenant-right agreement of the district, with respect 
to bones and other artificial manures, is that the outgoing tenant 
receives one-half of the last year's expenditure, and one-third that 
of the year before ; and with respect to oilcake he gets one-half of 
one year's expenditure calculated on the average of the last three 
years. He is also allowed the whole amount of his new seed bill ; 
and the cost of the labour upon all crops left on the farm, besides 
the cost of working the winter fallows. Liming is usually done 
by the tenant under a 4 years' tenant-right agreement, and 
marling under a 7 years. Mr. Torr's landlord at Aylesby 
allows him a more liberal tenant-right than that usual in the 
district. 
4. Nottinghamshire Farming. — I. South Nottingham : Hexgrave 
and Leijjields, in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Parkinson. 
By Henry Hall Dixon. 
Hexgrave, where Mr. Parkinson resides, is about four miles 
as the crow flies, through RufFord Park, from Leyfields. He 
holds its 740 acres under his brother, Mr. Richard Milward, 
along with 360 more in Farnsfield parish. Hexgrave was 
originally granted to the Archbishop of York, when he lived at 
Southwell, in order to keep a few deer. The soil is half clay 
and half sand, and so variable that both may be found in the 
same field. Some of the sand-land is worth as much as the 
clay, and they are valued one with another at about 30s. an 
acre, but part of it is very near the gravel and requres a large 
quantity of manure, and then only gives a good crop in a damp 
summer. There is also some black peat bog, which is of poor 
quality and is soon burnt up in hot weather, and the grass has 
