AGRICULTURAL PARTNERSHIP.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1493, 26 February 1887, Page 4

AGRICULTURAL PARTNERSHIP.

It is not generally known m other countries that m Prance what is teimed the 11 metayage " system is very extensively practiced m farming. Metayage, it may be aa we'l to mention, is a system of agricultural partnership. The landowner furnishes the land, the tenant supplies the labor," and the prrfitn are tqmlly shared. The metaire varieß m extent from 60 up to 150 or m-TH ajrea. We find m the Deparimens <f the Lundt* 27,484 metairie ; m the Allier, 11,632 ; m the Gb-cnde. 11,668 ; m the Olarante, 10,776 ; m the Lot. 10,000 ; m tho Haute Vlonoe, 8337 ; m the Cantol, 2292 ; and so on, uietaj oge prevailing all over France. Tenant farming also ia pursued, and we find at Solne-st-Marno, Brittary, and elsewhere, the two systems m operation side by side. In the Bonohei dv Ehone, for instance, we find 1700 tnotalrieo and 9000 farms let on leaso precisely as m England. la the Tarn we find 170.) tenant farmers and 9300 ffietayages. In a recent official report on metaynge m the Limousin it is announced that m 3CO metairias the profits had more than doubled within twontyfivo years. The metayer m timo becomes a proprietor, and is regarded m a moßt valuable agent In developing and improving agriculture m Franca. It will be seen, therefore, that ! nothing can be farther from the truth than to suppose the French territory cut up into tiny parcels of land, each th property of a peasant m hardly better cane than his pre-Revolutionary anceßtn- In the Auvergne, a landlord has m any case to furnish his farm. By that tho Btook both live and dead, belong to him. Take for instance, a farm let at £500 annually. The farmer m tiking poßeasion has every, thing require, except his personal furnltare to run hio farm, receiving live and dead stock, which is estimated by two and sometimes three exports. Therefore he has nothing to lay out. He simply giveß the landlord, what fa terrard a " cautlonmenfc," (which means bail for the first rent) ; if m cash he is allowed 4 per cent. Interest. When he leaves the farm ho hands over to tho landlord the same value he reoeived.

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