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Fanning of the North Ridincj of Yorkshire, 
rake beliiiul drag out all the small weeds, and leave ihein at tlie 
surface of the land. One-horse carts are in much favour, and 
the large and heavy waggon is fast disappearing throughout the 
whole Hiding. Richmond's straw-cutter, Clyburn's crusher, 
Cbarnock's tile-machine, and Gardner's turnip-cutter, are amongst 
other favourite implements. Several apparatus, for boiling lin- 
seed by steam, and one or two agricultural steam-engines exist 
in the Riding, and a growing disposition appears to be manifested 
to use the compound in preference to cake. 
Tenancy. 
The tenants are principally from year to year, the farms small, 
and a somewhat considerable portion of the Riding is in the hands 
of the yeomanry. There is a dislike to leases generally, and I 
have known instances where tenants have refused to take a farm 
because they were to be bound to it by an imperative lease. Some 
land-owners are beginning to bind themselves to pay their 
tenants for unexliaiisted improvements : amongst the foremost of 
these is J. T. Wharton, Esq., of Skelton Castle, who adopts the 
Lincolnshire practice in his agreements with the tenants. 
Labourers. 
This class is a very healthy, hardy, and faithful race. Incen- 
diarism is a very rare vice ; the wages are lis. and \'ls. in winter 
and spring, and in hay-tiine and harvest as much as 15s. and 18.s\ 
per week, with meat and allowance; drainers have 15s. per 
week in the winter months : task- work is very common ; turni])- 
hoeing 7s. per acre ; corn-cutting 8s. per acre, and women have 
9rA per day of eight hours, and Is. Gc/. and 2s. in harvest for nine 
hours. The dwellings and cottages of the labourers are some- 
what small, but they are rapidly improving, and the allotment 
system is very prevalent from one end of the Riding to the other. 
Tanks for Liquid Manure. 
These are not so common as might have been expected, and in 
not a lew instances are the rich soluble parts of the manure seen 
dribbling away by some covered drain or some open ditch. 
There are, however, some instances where tanks have been 
adopted, and their utility and application are but ill understood. 
It is found that when applied directly to grass, the liquid does 
not answer the purpose, unless in quantities to irrigate the land ; 
the rains in winter wash it away, the drought in summer tends to 
evaporate it ; so that to apply it economically, it is desirable to 
saturate with it from time to time some decomposed vegetable 
matter, or some compost-heap previously prepared, and this, 
