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provided  in  a lease  of  a farm  that  the  compensation  payable 
to  the  tenant  should  be  according  to  the  rates  specified  in  a 
schedule  annexed  to  the  lease,  and  that  compensation  at  these 
rates  should  be  held  as  substituted  for  the  compensation  under 
the  Agricultural  Holdings  Act,  1908.  Heads  I.,  II.,  and  III.,  of 
the  Schedule  provided  for  the  compensation  payable  for  certain 
specified  artificial  manures  at  rates  varying  according  to  the 
year  of  application.  Heads  IV.  and  V.  were  as  follows  : 
“ IV.  Other  artificial  manures.  Exhausted  by  first  crop— no 
compensation.  V.  Feeding  stuffs.  For  linseed,  cotton  and 
rape  cakes,  or  for  other  purchased  substances  of  equal  manurial 
value,  consumed  on  the  farm  by  cattle  and  sheep  and  pigs 
during  the  last  year  of  the  lease,  one-third  of  the  value  thereof. 
If  consumed  on  permanent  pasture,  three-sixths  of  the  value 
thereof,  if  applied  in  the  last  year,  two-sixths  if  in  second  last 
year,  and  one-sixth  if  in  third  last  year.  Exhausted  in  four 
years.”  In  a note  appended  to  the  Schedule  it  was  provided 
“ From  the  amount  to  be  paid  in  compensation  for  the  unex- 
hausted manurial  value  of  feeding-stuffs  the  arbiters  shall 
deduct  any  sum  which,  in  their  opinion,  has  been  or  should  be 
paid  to  the  tenant  on  account  of  any  increased  award,  by 
reason  of  the  manurial  value  of  the  feeding-stuff  consumed, 
put  upon  the  dung  left  by  the  tenant.”  In  a claim  by  the 
tenant  at  the  expiry  of  the  lease  for  compensation  for  unex- 
hausted manures  (in  which  the  rate  of  compensation  provided 
by  the  Schedule  was  not  challenged  as  unfair  or  unreasonable) 
it  was  held  first  that  the  Schedule  should  be  read  as  a whole, 
and  that  so  read  Head  IV.  was  not  void  under  Section  5 of 
the  Agricultural  Holdings  Act,  1908  (which  avoids  contracts 
depriving  a tenant  of  his  right  to  compensation),  but  validly 
precluded  the  tenant  from  claiming  compensation  for  “other 
artificial  manures,”  which  had  grown  a crop;  secondly  that 
“ value  ” in  Head  V.  meant  original  or  manurial  value,  i.e., 
the  value  of  the  manurial  constituents  of  the  feeding  stuffs 
before  they  were  consumed ; thirdly  that  the  tenant  was 
validly  precluded  from  claiming  compensation  for  feed- 
ing stuffs  of  the  character  specified  in  Head  V.,  which 
were  consumed  on  the  holding  (exclusive  of  the  permanent 
pasture)  prior  to  the  last  year  of  the  lease  ; fourthly  that  the 
tenant  was  entitled  to  compensation  in  respect  of  the  con- 
sumption on  the  holding  of  feeding  stuffs,  the  manurial 
residuum  of  which  entered  the  farmyard  manure  left  un- 
applied to  the  land  by  the  tenant  at  outgoing,  but  subject  to 
deduction  of  such  sum  as  might  be  found  deductible  under 
the  provisions  of  the  note  appended  to  the  schedule. 
The  tenant  in  the  same  case  had  made  a claim  for  compensa- 
tion for  “ unreasonable  disturbance,”  under  Section  10  of  the 
