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PART II. 
ImPEOVEMEKT IX BESPECT OF WHICH NOTICE TO LANDLORD IS REQUIRED. 
(15.) Drainage. 
PART III. 
Improvemexts to which Cossext OF Landlord is kot required. 
(16.) Boning of land with undissolved bones. 
(17.) Chalking of land. 
(18.) Clay-buming. 
(19.) Claying of land. 
(20.) Liming of land. 
(21.) Marling of land. 
(22.) Application to land of purchased artificial or other purchased manure. 
(23.) Consumption on the holding by cattle, sheep, or pigs of cake or 
other feeding stuff not produced on the holding. 
SECOND SCHEDULE. 
Section 49. — Levying distress. Three per centum on any sum exceeding 
20Z. and not exceeding 50?. Two and a half per centum on any sum exceed- 
ing 50?. 
To bailiff for levy, 11. Is. 
To man in possession, if boarded, 3s. 6d. per day ; if not boarded, 5s. per day. 
For advertisements the sum actually paid. 
To auctioneer. For sale five pounds per centum on the sum realised not 
exceeding 100?., and four per centum on any additional sum realised not 
exceeding 100?., and on any sum exceeding 200?. three per centum. A 
fraction of 1?. to be in all cases considered 1?. 
Eeaeonable costs and charges where distress is withdrawn or where no sale 
takes place, and for negotiations between landlord and tenant respecting the 
distress ; such costs and charges in case the parties differ to be taxed by the 
registrar of the county court of the district in which the distress is made. 
II. — Improvement of the Plants of the Farm. By Henry 
EVEKSHED. 
Many examples might be given of the modification of cultivated 
plants by the skill of improvers both in agriculture and horti- 
culture. Few persons are ignorant of the plastic character of 
flowers, and the variety of forms and colours which have been 
developed by breeding and selection ; and probably few are 
unaware of the increased productive powers of some of the 
plants of the farm in recent years ; but comparatively few avail 
themselves of these improvements to their full extent. 
A short and practical account of the actual achievements in 
plant improvement, including the methods by which they have 
been effected, will probably be more useful at the present time 
than a more elaborate inquiry. It may, in fact, be said, that 
