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may with advantage to thcmfelvcs manage for the 

 better in future? 



$dly. Whether, where it appears that a tenant 

 is induftrious and opprefTed, it would not be more 

 to his own inte^eft to encourage him? 



4/6/y. I would afk, with all due fubmiflion, 

 whether this would not be more likely to encou^ 

 rage agriculture than the prefent practice of fcrewr 

 ing up rents to the higheft pitch poflible; or even 

 than in introducing, at a great expence, many very 

 ingenioufly contrived implements of husbandry, 

 many of which, though they may amufe and en- 

 tertain the curious, are not adapted for ufe to the 

 practical farmer? 



I mean not, however, to difcourage the ufe of 

 fuch newly-improved implements of hufbandry as 

 are calculated to expedite labour and leflen expence^ 

 but fuch only as are merely theoretical. 



I will juft add, that we find the watering of 

 meadow and pafture land attended with great ad- 

 vantage, and the cheapcfl amendment we have. 



lam, &c. 



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