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caused by the surrendei" ; shall pay, at the expiration of tlie term, 
the value of all sainfoin (not exceeding three years' growth, nor 
on more than one-fifth of the arable land), and the marketable 
value of all the last year's hay ; shall allow the tenant to sell 
(after written notice of intention) any hay, straw, turnips, other 
roots, or green crops (except during the last two years), on con- 
dition of purchasing town dung, guano, bones, or other permanent 
manures of equivalent value, the landlord to be the judge of such 
equivalence. 
The oidf/oinq tenant shall have accommodation in the house, 
barn, stables, yards, and outbuildings, till the 1st of May, after 
the expiration of his lease, to thresh out and dispose of his corn, 
and to consume his hay, straw, and roots ; or even till the 1 8th 
of July, to enable him to thresh and dispose of his corn, if not 
done before. 
The incoming tenant may enter on the 1st of November before 
the termination of the lease, on one-fourth of the arable land not 
in sainfoin, and require sufficient accommodation for himself, his 
servants, implements, and horses, in the house, stables, and out- 
buildings ; may enter on the 1st of August following, on an 
eighth part of the arable land not in sainfoin ; the outgoing 
tenant leaving another eighth part in one or two years' clover 
leys ; shall purchase hay of the last year's crop at the marketable 
value. [Here is the other particular of the Norfolk system.] 
10. Much has been said as to the necessity oi ai'terial drainage. 
" The rivers do not run into the sea," as they ought. Winter 
floods indeed leave a cheap manure behind them, but summer 
floods are an unmitigated evil : they fill the growing grass with 
grist, so that nothing will touch it. The stagnation of water at 
all times is bad. The attainment of an adequate control over a 
capricious stream implies a unity of management and a co-opera- 
tion of various interests very difficult to bring about. Yet this 
combination has been secured in water-meadows, where the 
water is used by farmers in turns and the law recognises and 
enforces water-rights. This gives some hope for flood-meadows, 
such as those below Fordingbridge on the Avon and on the Stour, 
To see those grounds under water month after month, during the 
past season was melancholy. Can nothing be done ? Something 
has been done already. Years since the proprietors agreed to 
remove all the mills and never to permit their re-erection ; 
so there is no artificial impediment here, as often elsewhere. 
Another help towards the solution of the question has been given 
by Mr. Bailey Denton on the river Test. I leave that gentleman 
to tell his own story in the Appendix. As to the results, from 
personal inspection of the areas drained I can testify that, at the 
close of a very wet season, when the water-level would naturally 
have been on or within a very few inches of the surface, the test- 
