300 View of tJje ^"Agriculture of Yorkshire, July 



*' The improvements we fuggeft are : 



*' ifl, That the nature of the connexion betwixt the landlord 

 and the tenant fiiould be changed, and leafes of a proper 

 duration granted. 



'• idly. That the arbitrary and injudicious covenants generally 

 impofed upon the tenantry, (hould be difcontinued, and 

 conditions, more favourable to improvements, fubllituted 

 in their ftead. 



** ^dlj\ That tithes fliould be commuted, 



*' ^thlvi That a general bill fhould be paffed by the Legiflature, 

 for the divifion of the common fields and wafle grounds. 



" Thefe are the leading means of improvement j without which 

 no material encouragement can be given to the hufbandry of the 

 diftridl. In hopes that the Board of Agriculture will confider 

 them in the fame light, we proceed to recommend, 



'' 5/Z>/y, More improved rotations of crops. 



*' dthly. Breaking up the old pafture fields, and frequent changes 

 of corn and grafs. 



" 7/M', Drilling and horfe-hoeing beans and turnips. 



** ?)thly, Planting the wafte lands which are improper for culti- 

 vation," 



Under the head of more improved rotations of crops, after 

 having premifed a variety of interefting particulars, indifpen- 

 fibie to the management of a good farm, fome valuable hints 

 are offered on the bcft mode of cultivating land, and raifing 

 crops on difF.rent foils. 



Tiie drilling and horfe-hoeing of Bca'fs and Turnips, and 

 thofe crops only, is ftrongly recommended as a real im- 

 provement. On planting certain parts of tlie waftes, it is 

 obferved that it ought to be " a material obje6l with every 

 well regulated government, that no part of its territory be 

 allowed to remain unproduClive, but that every acre of it 

 riiould be employed to fome ufeful purpofe or other. If 

 the foil is the capital ftock of the country, as feveral politi- 

 cal writers have maintained, the interefl; of the country is 

 negleded when any part of it is allowed to lie in a (late of 



fterility. 



