3l6 General View of the Agriculture July 



crop in an uniform manner^ is fo far right ; but, when it is 

 added, '* and to deliver a daily supply of straiv to the next te- 

 nant" it goes beyond what is pradlicable, when thrafhing- 

 machines are generally introduced ; and might fubje£t the 

 wry.going tenant to much inconvenience, efpecially if his fuc- 

 cefTor was of a troublefome difpofition. We know feveral 

 inftances of way-going tenants being difpofed to thrafh out 

 their crop in an irregular manner ; but, upon application to 

 the Judge Ordinary (the Sheriff of the county), every fuch 

 attempt has immediately been interdi6led. The firfl: part of 

 the claufe, therefore, in our humble opinion, is quite fuffi- 

 cient ; the addition would only lay a foundation for difputes, 

 which too often happen betwixt the pnrties. 5/A/y, The co- 

 venant refpe£ling the application of lime, appears loofely 

 worded, and would give room for difpute. If the tenant is 

 to be fole judge, ivhere »r when it -was necejjary to apply lime, 

 the claufe is unneceffary. If he is not the judge, but mud 

 either beftow the quantity fpecified in his leafe, or adopt the 

 alternative of ufing fo much dung in its place, then a burden 

 is impofed upon him, which may prove of no advantage to the 

 land ; a previous claufe having already declared, that the dung 

 could not be carried off the premifes. It rather gives us fur- 

 prife to notice fuch judicious cultivators indirectly recom- 

 mending the ufe of calcareous manures each time the land is 

 Summer- fallowed, or under fallowed-crops. 



We have, in former reviews, expreffed our difapprobation 

 of the feftion of expence and profit, which we judged improper 

 fubjedls for public difcuffion ; and the more we confider the 

 matter, the more our original ideas are confirmed. It is ob- 

 vious, that fcarcely any two farms are cultivated at the fame 

 rate of expence ; and chat the profits are regulated by a num- 

 ber of circumftances which can hardly be celebrated. 



The expence of a farm under the rotation of three years 

 arable, and three years grafs, is ftated to be 12I. 33. 6d. for fix 

 years, independent of rent, and the fupport of the farmer's 

 family ; the produce, for the fame time, is taken at 20I. ; 

 which leaves a balance of 7I. 16s. 6d., or il. 6s. id. per acre 

 per annum. We apprehend that this ftatement is materially 

 erroneous ; and that, under the prefent rate of rents, public 

 burthens, value of labour, and increafed exptnce of living, no 

 farmer could carry on his bufinefs upon fuch terms. It does 

 not prefent the higheft character of Northumberland hufband- 



