rule will be found to be very near the

truth.

ON THE GARDEN.

Fruit trees are generally valued when not planted more than ten or twelve years; when they have passed that age they are supposed to have paid cost and expenses, and become the property of the landlord. They cost singly a few shillings, and rise in value till six years old, according to their apparent worth, and the value remains the same during the next six years. Good currant and gooseberry bushes, young and in full bearing, are valued at prime cost, about 3d. each.

The digging of the ground and the vegetables growing in the garden are valued, or the latter are removed. As a garden produces a crop every year, and is always in good cultivation, nothing is allowed for labour previous to the last crop, but halftillage is due upon the manure. If any labour or manure has been applied since

the last crop was removed, the quitting tenant is entitled to value for it, and also

for

any seeds sown. The shrubs, flowers, and vegetables, may be valued or removed.

ON PUMPS AND TROUGHS.

Pumps and troughs are valued or allowed to be removed; they are sometimes the property of the occupier, and often of the proprietor, when no valuation is required. Pumps are estimated at about 10s. a yard in depth, if the length be under 12 yards; at 12s. 6d. if above 12 yards and under 20; and if above 20 yards, 15s. is given, varied in all cases by the current price of lead. The depth is measured by length of pipe, and the pump case is included.

Troughs are valued by the number of gallons they will contain, and are usually worth 4d. to 6d. according to quality. The length, breadth, and depth of a trough being multiplied together, will give the contents in cubic inches, which, divided by 282,

the number of cubic inches in a gallon, will give the contents in gallons, and the value may then be found at the rate payable : Suppose the inside length of an oblong trough is 56 inches, the width 42 inches, and the depth 32 inches, what are the contents in gallons, and the value at 5d. per gallon?

56

Round troughs are measured as a cy linder, by multiplying the square of the inside diameter by .7854 for the area of the bottom, and then by the depth for the whole contents, which, divided by 282, will give the number of gallons the trough will contain.

A semicircular trough is the half of a round one of the same depth and diameter, and is measured by calculating by the former rule, and then taking half of the amount for the contents.

Pumps and troughs, and all articles that partake of the nature of a fixture, should belong to the proprietors, and the decays and dilapidations during the currency of the lease be upheld by the tenant, as in other cases of a like nature.

XI.

ON DIFFERENT CUSTOMS OF VALUING TENANT

RIGHTS.

THE rotations of crops may be so much varied, that it would be useless to attempt to show the manner of valuing to suit every change that may be made.

If a tenant hold a farm by a lease or by a yearly agreement, he is not entitled to any valuation for tillages performed out of the course mentioned in the agreement, and can only demand what the stipulations enjoin. If the four years' course be mentioned, or three crops and a fallow, and not to take two corn crops in succession, or more than two such crops between fallowings, he will not be allowed for tillages on land on which he has deviated from the system to a worse one: but if a more meliorating course be adopted, no objections