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procedure to be adopted where a record is desired, is as follows : 
— If the parties are unable to agree upon the person to make 
it, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries will nominate a 
person, and the cost of the record, in default of agreement on 
the subject, must be borne by the landlord and tenant in 
equal proportions. Having regard to the new provisions in 
the Act with reference to freedom of cropping, disposal of 
produce, and unreasonable disturbance, landlords will probably 
insist on a record of the holding being made. In any event it 
is a proper precaution to adopt. 
Amendment of Market Gardeners Compensation Act. 
The Market Gardeners Compensation Act, 1895, which is 
intituled “ An Act to Amend the Provisions of the Agricultural 
Holdings (England) Act, 1883, so far as they extend to Market 
Gardens,” has, as regards England, been amended by the 
Agricultural Holdings Act 1900 ; and the Market Gardeners 
Compensation (Scotland) Act, 1897, has also been amended by 
the same Act, which applies with certain modifications to Scot- 
land. The new Act further amends the law both in England 
and Scotland. The effect of the amendment is to enable 
market gardeners to claim compensation for those improve- 
ments for which there is a right to compensation under 
existing Acts, where such improvements have been effected 
prior to 1896 in England and 1898 in Scotland. Thus, if a 
market gardener had erected buildings or enlarged them for the 
purpose of his trade or business as a market gardener prior to 
the coming into force of these Acts, he could make no claim 
for compensation on leaving his market garden. He can under 
the present Act. A large proportion of market gardens have 
been in existence for many years. The matter is therefore of 
some importance. By making buildings erected before the 
coming into force of the Market Gardeners Compensation Act 
subjects of compensation, it is further submitted that (inas- 
much as a market garden is a holding to which the Agricultural 
Holdings Act of 1900 applies), market gardeners will be able to 
claim for the repair of these buildings as an improvement, sub- 
ject to following the procedure already described ; they will 
therefore be able to claim compensation, both in respect of the 
buildings and the repairs, but the repairs only where they are 
under no legal liability to repair. This amendment of the law 
in favour of market gardeners may tend to give improved 
advantage to those engaged in this trade. 
Freedom op Cropping. 
The doctrine of the inviolability of a contract has received 
so many blows of late years that it would not be surprising to 
