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the oppression, or fickleness, of the one, and cunning, and disho- nesty, of the other.

Restrictions therefore, are necessary with both parties; but as it is impossible, the tenant can pay his rent without crops, I con- sider it by all means proper, that he should have liberty, to sub- stitute one crop for another; when, from unfavourable seasons, or from misfortune, his land is put out of that fair, and regular course, which should be agreed to be the best, by himself, and landlord, in the first onset. A man constrained by strong, and particular clauses, to crop his land rigidly, to the letter of his agreement, can never avert the loss, he sees falling on him; but if he is suffered to take a meliorating crop, of that kind, which will not throw his land out of course, more than a year, I am persuaded, not only himself, but the estate, must be benefited by such indulgence.—

For example.—If a piece of land, in a district of pleasant light loam, is well manured,(which is always the case in the turnip countries), got into good condition, and at a proper time sown with turnips, which, after all the expence, and pains be- stowed, do not prosper, it would bear hard on the tenant, to hold him from sowing wheat in the autumn, on that piece of land; particularly, as he could in the spring, sow clover, and thus bring his land into proper course again. Or if he is more anxious for spring feed, the same piece of ground, instead of having wheat, may be sown with vetches, and fed off time enough for him to sow his lent corn with seeds. Sometimes also, artificial grasses, either from the state of the land, or unfavour- able weather, about the time of sowing them, will not take root; in such instances, it would be a great injury to a tenant, and do the land no kind of good, to keep him from taking a cross crop; he being obliged, after having such extra crop, to turnip or vetch it, previous to its being laid down.

The usual practices, followed by the best farmers on the South- ern side ofthe county, are certainly very beneficial, and fair. A five shift course of husbandry is, without doubt, the best that can be adopted here; but I submit to their consideration, whether, the

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