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Farming of Hampshire. 
pasture land ; to keep water-meadows in repair, also all buildings, 
premises, roads, and ponds, on the allowance, by the landlord, of 
materials ; to paint the house internally and externally every six 
and three years respectively, on the allowance of paint and oil ; to 
keep hedges in good condition ; to cut thistles annually before 
the 5th of July ; not to sell any hay, straw, roots, or manure, but 
the landlord to have at a consuming price such of the last year's hay 
as he may think proper ; not to take more than two white straw- 
crops in succession ; nor have more than one-half of the arable 
land in corn at any one time ; nor grow broad clover oftener than 
once in seven years ; nor above a certain acreage of it any one 
year ; nor sainfoin oftener than once in twenty years ; nor more 
than a certain acreage of it at any one time ; nor less than a 
certain acreage of two years' growth sainfoin during the lease ; 
not to allow any grass to stand for seed ; to cultivate and crop 
during the last four years of the lease thus (so many acres of 
sainfoin, of not more than two years' growth ; one-fourth of the 
remainder of the arable fallow for roots, vetches, or rye, to be 
fed off; two-fourths grain, one-fourth seeds to be fed off, though 
one-half may be mown) ; to keep during the whole term so many 
breeding ewes and fatting sheep ; to fold the same after the 1st of 
May, in the last year, as the incoming tenant shall direct ; to fat 
yearly in the yards so many beasts, not less than two years 
old. 
The incoming tenant may enter on the 1st of January, in the 
last year, to carry out the dung, and to prepare for turnips, or, if 
required by the landlord, the outgoing tenant shall prepare and 
sow the turnips, and be paid for the crop by valuation on or 
before the 26th of September [here is the first beginning of the 
Norfolk system] ; the outgoing tenant shall sow the Lent corn, 
axid the incoming tenant may enter and sow the grass-seeds, which 
the outgoing tenant shall roll and harrow gratis; the incomer 
may enter on one-third of the leys and turnip grounds on the 1st 
of August, on another third on the 10th of September ; shall 
have after the 1st of January half the farmhouse, half the stables, 
and the joint use of the yards and outbuildings ; the outgoing 
tenant finding straw gratis. 
The landlord shall allow the outgoing tenant the cost price of 
all such bones as shall be laid on the farm during the last year, 
and one-half of the cost price of those laid on during the last year 
but one, and one-third of the cost price of linseed or oil cake 
consumed in the last year ; the quality and quantity of the bones 
and cake having been first approved by the landlord. 
The variations in the second lease are : the landlord may 
require the surrender of the occupation of any part of the land on 
condition of allowing the tenant a deduction of 12j per cent, on 
the rent, and also paying for all immediate damages or injuries 
