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between each fallow; with an eye to immediate advantage, without any thought of leaving their possessions, till in the end their farms become reduced in value; consequently an injury to their landlord,(in which, provided they con- tinue, they must themselves participate) must be incur- red.*

For the above reasons, it becomes necessary. for the sake of such tenants only, to place all who rent farms under restriction by leases for a year, the heads of which should, before committed to the attorney, be drawn up by some. person conversant in speculative husbandry; which leases should, among others, comprehend the fol- lowing clauses, or articles, viZ.

The rent per annum, and times of payment; that the buildings, fences, ditches, drains,&c. be kept in repair; that the timber be not injured; that no swarth be broken without leave in writing by special agreement; that no more than crops be had between each fallow; that all lands laid down be upon a clean fallow: that the quan- tity and kinds of seeds be specified: that no hay, straw, or manure, grown or made upon the farm, be sold or taken away; that the landlord shall beara proportionate share of the expence for all forezgn manure purchased for the use of the farm; that none of the articles may be broken or varied, without leave in writing, and that not to affect the original agreement, except in that particular case.

Hop ground, of which there is much in the neighbour- hood wherein I live, I am under apprehension(generally speaking) tends to injure the lands, in the vicinity thereof,

as the whole attention of some growers 1s to accumulate°

all the manure possible to be collected for the hop-yard,

* Tam sorry to say, some land-owners are so jealous of any profit accruing to the tenant, that they are constantly enquiring into his profit: and without considering his losses, expences,&c.&c. by advancing his rent on the least suspicions of adyantage, he is driven to the waste and destruction of his farm. for his own present support.

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