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is allowed for linsoed cake or other artificial food used the year 
before quittinp^. The outgoing tenant is allowed for carriage 
on materials for building, and on drainage tiles, and also five 
years in equal proportions for the draining. 
Contributed by Mr. W. Bowycr, of Southoe, Buckden. 
IvKNT. — The time at entry is either at Old or New Michael- 
mas. The outgoings in Kent vary very much in the diflcrent 
districts. In the Weald of Kent nearly everything is paid for. 
The incoming tenant takes the hay and straw at a feeding value, 
and pays for all unused manures. He also pays for the tillages 
with the rent, rates, and taxes on the fallows ; half manures are 
paid for with the exception of guano, for which only a third 
is charged; the incomer also pays for the clover and young seeds, 
hop-poles, underwood, down to the stub ; and on the Chalk Hills 
(except in the Weald) for the saintfoin, clover, and grass leys. 
Improvements of almost all kinds are allowed for, including 
planting young hops, and striking up the lands and hop-gardens 
to allow the water to run off. Drainage is also allowed for, if v<'ith 
tile, for ten years; and if with wood, for four years. The selling 
off of hay and straw is prohibited in the Weald, but in many other 
places it may be done on bringing back an equivalent in dung. 
Compensation for buildings which have been erected is not made. 
In East Kent the payment is not so heavy, and as a rule the 
manure is not charged to the incomer, it being the property of 
the landlord, and the tenant has only to pay for the labour thereon. 
A correspondent who has supplied us with much valuable infor- 
mation, but who does not wish his name mentioned, states that 
the so-called half manures of the county are only one-third the 
cost of the manures, and not always so much for guano. 
Mr. S. G. Beales, Secretary to the Farmers' Club at Maidstone, 
writes us that the above customs are considered almost correct, 
but that in some districts they differ a little. 
LaxCASHIKE. — The usual time to quit a farm in this county is 
at Candlemas, but the tenant retains a pasture-field, called "the 
outlet for cattle," and also the house and buildings, until May- 
day. The outgoer claims half the wheat which is sown after a 
green crop, and two -thirds of that grown after a fallow. The 
manure belongs to the farm, the incomer, therefore, pays nothing 
for it. Generally hay and straw may be sold off. In some parts 
the meadows have to be manured at specified periods, but there 
seems to be no general rule as to the intervals between each 
manuring. The premises are put into repair when a tenant 
enters, and the landlord expects him to keep them in a proper 
condition on being found materials in the rough. 
LeicestEKSHIKE and EutlaNDSHIRE. — About three-fourths 
of the tenancies commence at Lady-day, and the remainder at 
