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benefit of their exertions.
Regulations for lowering the price of Bread, and'increafing the con-
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17, By a law for lowering the duty on beer:or ale of a certain defcription, to enable the labourer, manufacturer, and mechanic, to purchafe a nourifhing liquor at a moderate price, fo as to encourage them to live more on bread and ale, and
‘ operation, is to rack and exhauft the foil, and following thefe with rye grafs, ‘ chiefly mowen the firft year, and none that I faw clofe fed, is to continue cropping, ‘ when the land moft needs repofe. If, therefore, the practice is really or effentially $ bad, or ruinous, as fo many think it, here is one diftriét in which it fhould be found ‘ particularly fo. But the fa@s I meet with will not juftify fuch a conclufion: The
rents of the lands, thus tortured, have rifen in twenty years, from$o to 100 per
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cent. The downs that were let at 25. 6d. and 3s. an acre, are now at 5s. and 6s.
# Whatever the pra@tice may be, therefore, it cannot materially have hurt the land-
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lord, if it has, in any cafe, hurt him at all” Æunals of Agricul. vol. 23. p. 358.
a this part of Scotland, where tenants hold their farms generally on leafes for 19 or 21 years, they have hitherto been feldom reftrited from fowing what they pleafe, during the currency of their leafes; but this liberty, fo far from leffening the advanced rent given at the renewal of the leafe, has certainly had the effect to raife itt Land here is higher rented than in England, in proportion to its quality. There has been lately given for a farm, on a leafe for 21 years, L.3 Sterling per Englifh flatute acre, which was feverely cropped at pleafure by the preceding tenant, and where no manure can be procured for putting it in order, but from the produce of the farm: Alf, for another farm of 140 acres in the fame fituation, only within reach of Edin- burgh dung, which, however, will coft the tenant from L. 6 to L."7to manure an acre, there has been given of yearly rent L. 100 Sterling in money, 63 quarters of wWheat, 03 quarters of barley, and 105 quarters of oats.
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