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acres of wheat every year; and, frequently, without 
confidering whether they have fufficient manure 
or not, or even whether the land be at all adapted 
to wheat. 
This cuftom, originating in neceffity in com- 
mon-field hufbandry, is too often retained on fe- 
veralty farms. The obfervation and good fenfe of 
farmers may, in time, alter this mode: but the 
temptation of immediate profit is frequently too 
{trong to allow farmers to look forward to future 
confequences, and more particularly thofe who 
either know or fear that they fhall foon quit their 
farms; and it is very natural for a farmer, who en- 
ters on a farm exhaufted by over-cropping, to leave 
it in a fimilar ftate, unlefs he is compelled, by his 
agreement, to do otherwife. Nothing but leafes 
for certain terms of years, and an obligation to pur- 
fue a certain mode of hufbandry during the term, 
can prevent this practice. If a farm be entered on 
in an exhaufled ftate, the tenant fhould have an al- 
Jowance for fuch bad entry, and be obliged to leave 
the farm ina good ftate at the end of his leafe. 
It is impoflible to lay down particular rules here, 
for the mode of hufbandry neceflary to be purfued 
on a South-Wiltthire farm during the term of a 
leafe, or in what manner a farm ought to be left 
for a coming-on tenant. 
They depend on foils and fituations, but they 
ought, by all means, to be pofitively limited and 
fettled, 
