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The Tenant's Compensation Act, 1890. 
The 30,000 tons of vegetables which were last year poured into 
Paris by rail possessed an estimated value of 12,000,000 francs 
(approximating to half a million sterling). Yet they formed only a 
tenth part of the supply, if we assume each of the 935,000 vehicles 
which discharged their loads at the gates of the Central Market to 
have carried 300 or 350 kilogrammes. 
Though France exports fresh vegetables largely, yet from their 
nature these are not qualified to undergo long journeys. Hence 
the preserve-makers are to be found everywhere, and the good 
quality of their materials, combined with the care bestowed upon 
manufacture, results in their produce being entitled to rank in the 
first class. The factories devoted to the preservation of green peas, 
French beans, and tomatoes are many and important, and three- 
fourths of the resulting products are exported. Asparagus and 
several other vegetables are similarly treated. As an example may 
be mentioned the case of a manufacturer who in a single year (1889) 
preserved 400,000 kilogrammes of sorrel, a salad herb which is as 
much appreciated in France as it is neglected in England. 
As bearing upon the general question of supplying large centres 
of population with fresh green food, it is submitted — 
1. That municipalities should so organise their markets as to 
facilitate the rapid and effective distributio n of vegetables amongst 
consumers. 
2. That means should be adopted to protect the interests of 
distant cultivators. 
3. That the fiscal arrangements should be the most favourable 
possible to an industrious and deserving class of men. 
Maurice L. de Yilmorin. 
THE TENANT'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1890. 
The Agricultural Holdings Act 1883, which was explained in vol. 
xx. of the second series of the Journal, has now been in operation for 
very nearly seven years, a period sufficiently long to have thoroughly 
tested its provisions. Although it has quite lately met with some 
severe criticisms, yet the criticisms have been directed to the mode 
in which the provisions of the Act have been carried out, or to the 
neglect to carry them out, rather than to the provisions themselves. 
The Act has, we may say, stood the test of experience, very well. There 
have been but few flaws detected in it, but it has been found that 
in some parts of the country, and, as was to be expected, notably in 
those parts in which a liberal tenant-right custom exists, tenants 
prefer to make their claims for compensation under the custom in- 
stead of under the Act. Perhaps the Act is least satisfactory 
from the tenant-farmer's point of view, because of the facility it 
affords to landlords to make counter-claims, and because it docs not 
