English Land Law. 
S75 = 109 
ategory of temporary improvements, and are placed under the 
wo following general heads :— 
1. Application to land of purchased artificial or other purchased manure. 
2. Consumption on the holding by cattle, sheep or pigs, of cake or other 
leding-stufls not produced on the holding (§ 5). 
These improvements may continue unexhausted, and there- Period of 
ore remain the subjects of compensation, till the end of two duration, 
ears following after the year of tenancy in which the outlay is 
nade (§ 6). The amount of compensation in respect of them 
s " such proportion of the sum properly laid out by the tenant 
>n the improvement as fairly represents " its value to the 
ncoming tenant at the end of the tenancy (§ 9). Upon the 
proper laying-out of the money upon manure and feeding-stuff 
vill depend the benefit to the new tenant, and therefore these 
iwo questions practically resolve themselves into one for the 
'»nsideration of the valuer.* 
Hitherto we have found the Act requiring as a condition Consent and 
)recedent to compensation for first-class improvements consent notice to lanJ- 
)y the landlord, and in the case of second-class improvements |.gq„ipgj 
notice to the landlord. The tenant is relieved from both these 
'tonditions in the third description of improvements, and it 
vould be obviously impossible to require either condition from 
dm as a preliminary to the manuring of his land or the 
eeding of his stock. This would be to make the landlord the 
armer. Still there are important reservations to his power of Exceptions to 
laiming compensation. No such claim, for example, can be tenant's claim, 
nade if, after the manure has been applied or the stock has been 
ed on the particular land so treated, he has taken from this 
)ortion of his holding " a crop of corn, potatoes, hay, or seed, 
n any other exhausting crop " (§ 13). Again, he is not entitled 
0 compensation for the consumption of cake or other feeding- 
tuff where, under custom or agreement, he claims payment from 
* The first question which the valuers will have to face is the proportion of the 
riginal cost which may '• fairly represent the value of the improvement, at the 
etermination of the tenancy, to an incoming tenant." An approximation to this 
alue for cake, bones, &c., has long been made by clauses in agreements, and by 
ustom in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and otlier counties. Mr. Lawes, in 
is valuable contributions to the ' Journal of the Eo3-al Agricultural Society,' has 
iveii a reliable testimony to the unexliausted value of manures applied under 
-•rtaiu conditions ; and it would, undoubtedly, be a matter of congratulation to 
ialuers an<l to the agricultural public if investigations of a similar character 
ould be carried out under other and varying conditions of climate and of soil, 
lut even now, with the limited information we possess, I am inclined to think that 
'ractiftd men, taking into consideration the customs of their own counties, and 
uided by the direction of the Act, will not find any insuperable difficulty in the 
instruction of this clause; and 1 believe that in many cases, if difficulty should 
■ anticipated, agreements will be made between landlord and tenaut vbich will 
fine in terms the jnoportionate payments to be made. — Note hij Mr, J. D, Dent, 
lUbston Hall, Welherbij, in Eoyal Agricultural Society's ' Journal,' March, 1876. 
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