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tributing a proportional relief, is certainly no friend to his country. Nothing can be more abfurd than the modes of cropping prefcribed by fome landlords to their tenants; for inftance, obliging them to fallow their lands every third year, preventing them from fubftituting turnips in place of the fal- low; prohibiting them from planting potatoes, or from fow- ing wheat, after peafe and beans, re/fraining them from plow-

bay or paflure lands*, Grant tenants leafes for twenty years, and let all reftriétions be abolifhed, at leaft till the laft three or four years of the leafe, allowing them to crop their farms in the manner moft advantageous for their own and the public inte- reft. Relieved from thefe fetters, they will give an advanced f

* Mr Arthur Young. In his Tour through France, recommends the allowing the hufbandmen of that country unlimited power to fow and plant what they pleafe, upon the land they farm, in order to render the foil more productive, for fupplying the inhabitants. In his Account of a Diftriét in Effex, in the Annals of Agriculture, he fays, While I was at Spain’s Hall, Mr Ruggles offered to feveral neighbours a large € field of ftanding grafs, ready to mow for hay, part ofit for 25s. per acre, and partat . and was refufed by all. The ground being excellently good, and the crop large, ‘ J'expreffed my furprife at this, when I was affured fheep would not pay for hay; that € they would eat 205. a-head in hay, and not be five fhillings the better for it; that the € fame remark is applicable to cows, which wiil never, for any quantity, pay more € than 15. 6d. per cwt.;#hat there is not a meadow fcarcely in the country, but avould be € ploughed up, if the landlords avould allow it: whence it is fufhciently plain, that they € efléem cornto be vaftly more advantageous than grafs; even on land that fhews ‘ figns of bemg fingularly adapted to it.” Wide Annals of Agriculture, vol. 18. p. 410.

+ Mr Arthur Young fhews the advanced rents that are given by tenants, when freed from reftriétions, even when purfuing the moft injudicious modes of cultiva- tion, in the following inftañce:‘ After being pared and burned to fow three « fuccefive crops of white corn, in confequence of the benefits derived from the

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