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ging and manuring for which will improve the fruit-trees, 
muft be more valuable than any fucceffion of corn crops 
that could poffibly be raifed at an equal, or even fuperior, 
expence. An exceffrve quantity of orcharding is not to be 
contended for. Leafes on fuch fmall farms. being far lefs 
neceflary, than on large or middle-fized arable ones, they 
may in general be confidered as fituations on which to prove 
and encourage the induftry and moral excellence of an inter- 
mediate clafs of men; who, under a kind and foftering 
patronage, may be highly ufeful and exemplary in rural life. 
3dly.. Whether the larger farms be duly proportioned, 
and provifions in leafes be wifely inferted to keep them 
duly proportioned, as to pafture and arable? And whether 
the moft hilly and poor fpots of the foil be fuitable for, and 
if fo, kept fufficiently cropped with, that moft valuable and 
excellent article, /ainfoin ; which, as a cheap, eafily-managed, 
“and abundant fource of feeding, is in many places too little 
cultivated, and even known? If a common objection 
agamit fuch careful regulations be here urged, z.e. that 
tenants will, in general, for their own intereft, fo occupy and 
crop, or depafture their land, as to turn it to beft account by 
meeting and fupplying the greate(t demand at market; we 
have to oppofe to this general doctrine, the notorious fact, ~ 
that the zzdolence, the carele[snefs, the want of fagacity, the 
obftinacy, and the want of publick principle in tenants, are 
too often found—more enlightened and liberal as may be 
the major part. 
4thly. Whether any part or parts of fuch farms be eafily 
fufceptible of the advantage of watering, for improved mea- 
dow? And if fuch advantages have been over-looked before 
leafing, whether the farmer may not be induced, by perfua- 
fion or fubfequent agreement, to come into the plan of fuch 
an improvement, on encouraging or equal terms? 
sthly. Whether 
