The Agricultural Holdings {England) Act, 1883. 
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temporary improvements in Part 3, and for draining in Part 2 
of Schedule I., and they suggest that this scale should " be sub- 
stituted, by agreements, for compensation under the Act " : — 
" 1. For one-third of the cost of linseed-cake, cotton-cake, rape-cake, or 
malt-culm, and one-sixth of the cost of com-cake, malt, or other manufac- 
tured feeding-stuffs of similar manurial value, which have been consumed on 
the farm during the last year of the tenancy ; and for one-sixth of the cost of 
linseed-cake, cotton-cake, rape-cake, or malt-culm, and one-twelfth of the cost 
of com-cake, malt, or other manufactured feeding-stuffs of similar maniuial 
value, which have been consumed on the farm during the preceding year of 
the tenancy. 
" 2. For the cost of dry bones used with green crops consumed on the farm 
as follows, viz. : — the whole cost (inclusive of railway or water-carriage) if 
used during the last year of the tenancy, and half the cost if used during the 
preceding year. 
" 3. For the whole of the cost of artificial manures, of approved manurial 
value, used with green crops consumed on the farm during the last year of 
the tenancy, and for the cost of railway or water-carriage of the same. 
" Provided that the allowances under clauses 2 and 3 for the cost of bones 
and artificial manures shaU not exceed the cost per acre of the two next 
preceding years. 
" 4. For the cost of lime used on the land of the farm, including the cost 
of carriage, cartage, and spreading thereof, on a seven years' principle, that is 
to say, the allowance to be reduced by one-seventh part every year uatil the 
seven years have expired. 
" 5. For the cost of claying, marling, or chalking the farm, on a twelve 
years' principle, the whole of the cost being allowed for the first four years, 
and after that period one-eighth part to be deducted yearly for the remaining 
eight years.* 
" 6. For the cost of bones used on pasture-land of the farm as follows, 
viz. : — 
" For dry bones, on a ten years' principle. 
" For dissolved bones, on a five years' principle. 
" 7. For two-thirds of the cost of other purchased manures used on 
pastm'e-land of the farm during the last year of the tenancy, and for one- 
third of the cost of any such manures used during the preceding year. 
" Resolved — That in default of any agreement or undertaking, or in the 
event of any other failure referred to in Section i of the Act with regard to 
improvements under Part 2 of Schedule I.,t the following allowances are, in 
the opinion of this meeting, fair and reasonable, viz. : — 
_ ^"For the cost of tmder-draining the farm, as follows : — 
" («) When the landlord finds the tiles and the tenant the labour, on 
a ten years' principle. 
" (&) When the tenant finds both tiles and labour, on a fifteen years' 
principle. " 
The Resolutions embodying this scale of allowances were 
passed unanimously at a united special general meeting of the 
bodies referred to, and are signed " !M. E. G. Finch-Hatton, 
Chairman of the Lincolnshire Chamber of Agriculture : James 
Martin, President of the Lincolnshire Land Agents' and 
* " It is considered that the tenant does not receive any benefit for the first 
four years." t Draining. 
