l6o On Injudicious Methods of Setting Land, May 



to- them, that if thefe farms are not let till June, the fitting te- 

 nant, even if continued, can fow no grafs feeds, no turnip, no 

 fallow, provide no lime or other manure, without committing 

 an a<^ of folly againft his own intereft. Thus, without the; 

 fmalleft advantage to the proprietor, but, contrariwife, with the 

 greateft injullice to his ground, the farmer, if continued, is to 

 be injured more tlian 20s. for each acre he pofTeffes, by the want 

 of hay and turnip the iirft winter •, of green clover the next fum- 

 mer, and by a total difarrangement of tlie ccconomy of the 

 * \xm. If a new tenant is preferred, in what fituation is he to 

 fit down ? He cannot, in June, apply to the outgoing tenant 

 to allow grafs feeds to be fown and harrowed in with his crop ; 

 he can have no ground for turnip or fallow, the /eafon for pre- 

 paring both being over. The confequence to the proprietor 

 will be, that either the tackfman mull have a very moderate 

 Ihare of underftanding ; or his offer in rent muft be eonfider- 

 ably lefs than he would have made it, if not fubje£led to the 

 difadvantiges above noticed. 



Your Magnziwe being generally read, I hope thefe ftritSlures 

 miy meet tlie eye of both proprietors and managers, and be im- 

 proved in fuch a way, that, in time to come, not one folitary 

 inftance of the like nature will be met with in a newfpaper. 

 In faft, the adverrifements ' allude to, contain fuch a difplay of 

 ignorance of the true intereft of proprietor and tenant ; of a- 

 cricultural knowledge ; of public good, and of the management 

 of an eftate, as to merit the fevcreft reprehenfion. Indeed, the 

 manager, whoever he is, may be afhamed to fhow his face, after 

 committing himfelf fo egregioufly. Not even the order of the 

 proprietor can fcreen him ; for if he had the {kill to know, and 

 honefty to point out the true intereft of the concerned, no fucK 

 order could polTibly have been given. 



Ultima Tkuky 23. Jan. 1804, A SPECTATOR. 



NOTE BY THE CONDUCTOR. 



The mode of letting land, reprehended by our northern cor- 

 refpondent, is fo inconfi.i'ent with public and individual intereft, 

 that we cannot pafs the fubje6V, without ofl'erin^ a few remarks 

 on its mifchievous tendency. Indeed, where Whitfunday is the 

 term of entry, land ought to be fet fifteen months preceding 

 that time, otherwife the tenant neccflarily enters with lefs or 

 more difadvantage. If at Martinmas, the fet ought at leaft tc? 

 be nine months before that term, fo as grafs feeds may be got 

 fown in due feafon. The great objed is., to phce the new te- 

 nant: 



