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Farming o f Buckinghamshire. 
buildings are new, and the convenient arrangement, tlie solidity 
and perfect execution with which they ai-e built, reflect the highest 
credit on the noble Lord's energetic surveyor. In these buildings 
the house, offices, &c., occupy the south of the square, a small 
barn the centre of the north, while stables, cow-houses, cattle- 
sheds, piggeries, &c., occupy the rest and the two sides. The 
enclosure is generally divided into three well proportioned and 
warm yards. The materials used are bricks, slates, oak, and the 
best foreign deal. The house and premises just completed at 
Aston were removed from the middle of the village to a con- 
venient spot on the farm, and cost in erection 1572/. Where so 
much is really good it seems captious to criticise, but if there is 
a fault in the arrangement of these buildings, it is that the barns 
are too small. Supposing all the corn to be threshed out of doors, 
the farmer requires space for two or three sorts of unwinnowed corn. 
There are many other respectable farm-buildings in the county, 
for instance, those around Cheneys ; and in the north, the premises 
of Snelson, reared almost exclusively by the present enterprising 
tenant ; but those described are considered most worthy of notice. 
From the numerous varieties of soils it will be readily imagined 
that the rents of the county vary much. In order to arrive at 
some general idea the county was divided into six different 
districts, in each of which the rental of four varying farms 
was taken, and the average of the four Avas supposed to be a fair 
criterion of the rent of the district. They are as follows : — 
Land south of the Chilterns 35s. 
The Chiltcrn Eange 20s. 
The mixed loams of Central Bucks .. .. 30s. 
The Vale of Aylesbury 42s. 
The dairy lands of the Oxford clays .. .. 22s. 
The oolitic soils of the north 28s. 
This gives an average for the county of about 305., which is 
not 2s. 6c?. more than it v/as in 1809. The rental in the different 
districts of course varies greatly ; for instance some lands of the 
Chilterns are let as low as 10s., while for the very best 30s. is 
given. In the Vale oOs. and 35s. is the common price of dairy 
farms, and the grazing lands let from 45s. to 50s. an acre, and 
even some at 3/., but this latter figure is generally only paid for 
accommodation land, and is hardly ever given for purely agri- 
cultural purposes. 
Mr. Priest, in his last Report, mentions a circumstance highly 
creditable to the clergy of his day. There was only one parish, 
Great Marlow, in the whole county, in which tithes were taken 
in kind. Now a great many parishes are tithe-free, for at the 
inclosure allotments of land were given in lieu of tithes. In 
some parishes where no land was set out, an annual payment or 
