x4 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

ſerving proprietor may always ſele from amongſt them pro- per tenants for his ſmall farms, who may riſe, as numbers have done, to occupy with advantage the largeſt farms in their| neighbourhood.

Eſtates are principally under the dire&ion of ſtewards and bailiffs, A few‘individuals have attended perſonally to the improvement of their own lands; and having executed their| work in a ſuperior manner, without doubt have found their account in the ſuperior profit derived from ſuch exertions.

THe Tenures are chiefly freehold."There aré ſommé copyhold; leaſes on lives have been more frequent formerly,

than ât preſent; but thé praice for granting leaſes for lives is| riot entirely diſcontinued. A conſiderable eſtate in the county, is poſſeſſed by thé tenants in the following manner, which may publ give ſome idea of the proportion of leaſes for lives, compared bela! to thoſe for a determinate period. havi by and Statute Mea- Preſent Eſtimated clear| Ma ſure. Rent. Y early Value. reig Ao Re Pel E Sd e SEA othe Amount of Leaſes for one Life-| 297 3 27 TOO E 55 00 fle Ditto==<= fortwo Lives-| 322 3 19 1014 721 458:13 0 a s: Ó 5 ie Yirfuo Ditto=<=+= for three Lives-| 222’ o0 13 o) 4 352 3.0 Dito=== foryears=-|1,742 2 4[3,910 2 8[4,212 I%2 Th 2,495 2 1 14,100 6 0#(/55537 17 2 Many ———— I €44 z | hayino | and€ | Which plants Proved, tions, * Some Alte of lan SZ CHAPTER