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the houſe of a proprietor and his taſte; tenants rarely, if ever, thinking this an obje&; and proprietors, not deeming it of great conſequence to plant for the accommodation of tenants, eſpecially as many of them might permit their live ſtock to deſtroy the fences and injure the trees.

In ſome caſes, perhaps in too many, the leaſes are not granted for ſuch a length of years as may enable farmers to begin and purſue improvements with proper ſpirit.

Certain ſervices, performed by ſome of the feuers to their reſpective Fuperiors, and by ſome tenants to their landlords, frequently do harm by interrupting unſeaſonably their 1a bours. Theſe ſervices, among others, conſiſt in the following articles, the doing of work during ſeed time, harveſt, hay time,&c.; and it often happens that, when the huſbandman 1s little prepared for it, his ſervants and work people are o- bliged to leave undone,' and with ſome riſk, his own labours, to do the cuſtomary ſervices on another poſſeſflion, and that, perhaps, ſomewhat diſtant. The occupiers of the lands having right to ſuch ſervices from foreign labourers do not enjoy much advantage irom this circumſtance; for their hof- Pitality or politeneſs induces them to treat them with provi- ſions more coſtly, and with indulgence in reſpe& to work greater, than their own ſervants are at other times accuſtomed to, the conſequence of which pradtice is thought to be, that the works are ſlowly and Nlovenly executed, and habits of diſlipation and idleneſs ariſe.

The want of perſons ſkilful in the diſeaſes of our domeſ- tic animals is a ſerious loſs to this as well as other diſtricts of the kingdom, and will not ſoon be removed. The common farriers are generally ignorant, and many of them raſh.