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end of the term, to give to the old tenant the due reward for the 
improvements he may have made. I think the landlord and 
tenant should divide the increased value when settling their future 
bargain. 
Bryanston, Feb. 25th, 1843. 
Were landlords to adopt this mode of employing money, they would not 
only confer an inestimable benefit to society by the employment of the 
destitute poor, but the improvement of their property would amply repay 
the expenditure : as witness the account of Lord Hatherton's estate in 
Staffordshire (as detailed in vol.ii., No. xxv., of this Journal). It is true 
that men of large fortune have frequently parliamentary duties and other 
occupations to perform, which prevent them from expending their time on 
such pursuits ; but they can never be at a loss to procure an intelligent 
land-agent, who should be resident on the property, and without any other 
occupation than its management. — FllE^'c•H Burke. 
Shepherd's Corner Farm Durweston. 
The whole of this land is on the chalky and at a higli elevation 
above the sea. 
The fields 1, 2, 3 are of a clayey nature with some flints; the 
soil is of a reddish colour, and called by the surveyors " sour 
land." The fields 4, 5, 6 are also on the chalk, but less clayey, 
and covered with a great quantity of flint. 
Field No. 1. — South Free Down — 36 acres, 2 roods, 22 perches. 
1826-1. Digged to the depth of 9 inches; surface-soil buried. 
1827. Sown with oats; seed 6 bush, per acre; crop about 26 bush. 
an acre. 
1828. Western half left with oats self-sown; folded over by sheep 
last winter; the oats a poor crop, 16 bush, per acre ; much 
infested with fern, &c. The eastern half sown with common 
and Swedish turnips; manure about 11 loads of dung per 
acre ; crop of swedes pretty good ; of common turnip very 
light. 
1829. The western half uncultivated (the west and east treated differ- 
ently, to ascertain the best mode of applying the chalk) : the 
eastern half sown with white oats ; seed 6 bush, per acre ; 
crop 32 bush, per acre. 
1830. Chalked; chalk carried out by donkey and in wheelbarrows; 
sown with common turnip-seed, 3 lbs. per acre, 28 acres; 
a pretty good crop, eaten off by sheep, 2 acres planted with 
potatoes; manured 10 loads dung per acre; seed 8 sacks 
