Xoiiingham^hire and Lincolnshire in 1888 : Class 1. 523 
■when the tenant finds tiles and labour, on a ten years' principle when 
the tenant finds labour only. Of all the above improvements due notice 
must be given to the landlord, and his consent previously obtained, but not 
to the following. Allowances on a graduated scale are made for the use of 
cakes and feeding stufl's (except corn grown on the farm), for bones, and for 
liming, claying, &c., and for customary tillages to date of exit. 
Certain lands were very commonly let with a waygoing 
crop, which practically meant that the corn crops upon them of 
the harvest a fter date of exit belonged to the outgoing tenant, 
although the incomer had the pleasure of paying the rent, to- 
gether with all the costs of collecting and thrashing. Now that 
farms are more difficult to let, the additional capital required 
to meet such a remarkable arrangement is not forthcoming. 
The landlords, therefore, are paying off the claim as required. 
Two white straw crops together, but no more, are commonly 
allowed, and the usual restrictions against the sale of certain kinds 
of produce are very much in force. A general reduction of 
rent to the amount of 25 to 30 per cent, is said to have been 
established. 
So much was heard and written of the wonders of the 
Wolds a few years since that the pride and glory of Lincolnshire 
farming must have been supposed by many to centre and cul- 
minate in that neighbourhood. Perhaps it did ; but Sir James 
Caird in 1851 was evidently of opinion that the district was a 
little overrated. He named other places, though not in Lincoln, 
where higher standards of modern improvements — then in their 
infancy — had in his opinion been attained. At the same time 
there can be no doubt that the Wold farming had, and has, a 
well deserved reputation, and it was a great disappointment to the 
J udges that they were not afforded the opportunity, which the 
entry of one of these farms would have given them, of a closer 
inspection of the neighbourhood for themselves. Kor was this the 
only presumably highly cultivated district of so famed a county 
of which the same could be said. The richer and deeper soils 
of both Lincoln and Notts, whence it was hoped to reap much 
of both interest and profit, were practically unrepresented in 
Class I. 
There is doubtless something of healthy rivalry between the 
large farms on the large estates of the two long ranges of ele- 
vated land to east and west of the county. The Earl of Yar- 
borough heads the list of great and spirited proprietors of the 
Wolds, and Mr. Chaplin, of the owners of the Heath and Cliff. 
The land is all of light or tractable character, that of the Wolds 
being the better staple. Good buildings have been erected in 
both cases ; and at reasonable rents men of capital and enterprise 
have embraced the opportimity of tenancy, and, in spite of some 
