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Allotments. Many (English) Acts (see chit. Stat., tit. 'Allotments') have been passed authorizing parish officers to let out to poor persons small quantities of parish land or land originally allotted under inclosure Acts for the benefit of the poor. The Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 (Part II.), empowers parish, urban, borough or county councils to provide plots of land for persons belonging to the labouring population of the locality to cultivate as farms or gardens. Land for allotments may be acquired compulsorily by the above bodies (ss. 12 and 27, Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919) (as amended by the 1925 Act, s. 1). This Act as amended by the Allotments Act, 1922, necessitates a six months' or longer notice to quit (but see s. 30(2) of the Act, 1908, and s. 1 of the Act of 1922), and provides, notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, for compensation to an outgoing tenant by the landlord for growing crops, manure, improvement, etc. (s. 47 of the Act of 1908, a...
Dungmeer
A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure...
Sea mud
A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore sometimes used as a manure called also sea ooze...
Nitratine
A mineral occurring in transparent crystals usually of a white sometimes of a reddish gray or lemon yellow color native sodium nitrate It is used in making nitric acid and for manure Called also soda niter...
Muckworm
A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure applied to the larvaelig of the tumbledung and allied beetles...
Manure
To cultivate by manual labor to till hence to develop by culture...
Hotbed
A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances and covered with glass intended for raising early plants or for nourishing exotics...
Fire fanged
Injured as by fire burned said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition...
Poudrette
A manure made from night soil dried and mixed with charcoal gypsum etc...
Commonable beasts
Commonable beasts, such as are necessary for the ploughing or manuring of land, as horses, oxen, cows, and sheep....
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