156 Farmincj Customs and Covenants of England. 
Michaelmas. On a Michaelmas holding the incoming tenant 
pays on the summer faUoios for one year's rent, rates, and the 
acts of husbandry ; also for bought manures and their carriage, 
together with the cartage and the spreading of the farm-manure. 
The root crop he has to take at a consuming price, the bought 
manures and carriage being also charged. On stubbles prepared 
for wheat or tares, the incoming tenant has to pay the cost and 
transit of any lime used, the cost of the ploughings, the carriage, 
and the cost of the bought manure, together with the carriage of 
any home-made manure, and on clover-seeds the expense of the 
seeds and of sowing. Hay, clover, and straio, if taken by the 
incoming tenant, are to be jiaid for at a consuming price ; if he 
refuses to take these (but this does not often occur) the outgoing 
tenant has the farm premises to convert the straw into manure, 
but the hay and clover are taken too, though he may not remove 
them. 
On Lady-day entries the summer fallows arc paid for as at 
Michaelmas. The incomer has also to pay for seeds of all sorts 
which are sown, and from which the outgoing tenant has received 
no lienefit ; also for the hay, clover, and straw that remains ; il, 
however, there is a great quantity, the price per ton is lowered. 
The tenants usually do all the repairs, except to roofs, outside 
walls, and main timbers ; sometimes the landlord provides rough 
timber. For draining, an allowtmce is usually made for either 
four years, when the tenant finds labour only ; or six years, when he 
finds pipes also. The allowance for linseed and cotton cake is a 
quarter of the cost for the last two years, and the same for lime, 
but without the cost of the carriage for the second year. 
Contributed and revised by Mr. W. Inett, of Ashfordby House, 
Melton Mowbray. We also wish to thank Mr. Doubleday, of Long 
("lawson. Melton Mowbray, for the trouble he has taken to obtain 
information for us. 
Lincolnshire. — The tenancies in this county are principally 
yearly, and commencing at Old Lady-day for the arable land, 
and on the loth of May for the homestead and the pasture land. 
i'lie incoming tenant pays for all the bones and approved artifi- 
cial manures used on the last year's root crop, also for the acts 
of husbandry on the fallows, the cartage of manure, and, in some 
cases, for the rent and rates on the fallows. The outgoing tenant 
usually sows the wheat in the autumn before he quits, and some- 
times the spring corn, for both of which he is paid for seed and 
laljour, including the hauling of manure ; he has also to pay for a 
(juarter of the last two years' cake-bill, and for the seeds sown 
and harrowed the spring preceding quitting, if they have not 
been stocked after the month of October, also for lime used on a 
four years' principle. The incoming tenant has usually the 
