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fettled, previous to a tenant’s entry. Nothing but 
this can prevent the quarrels which are continually 
happening, between a going-off and a coming-on 
tenant, in this diftrict. 
The indifpenfable neceffity of an obligation on 
a tenant, to purfue a regular courfe of hufbandry 
ona Wiltfhire-down farm, is a reafon why farms 
fhould never be lett without leafes in this diftrict. 
In many counties, leafes are under{tood to be only 
neceflary for the /ecurity of the tenant, but here 
they are abfolutely neceflary for the /ecurity of the 
landlord. 
The term of years to be granted by a leafe fhould 
be fo calculated as to bring a// the land, or as much 
of it as poflible, round in fucceffion a certain number 
of times; fo that the tenant may have juft as many 
complete years produce,as he pays years rent, and leave 
the farm exactly zx the fiate he entered upon it. 
The term fhould be therefore fuch as to be the 
moft divifible into the feveral periods of fowing 
the different kinds of land. Mott farmers will ex- 
pect to have liberty to fow fome of their loweft 
and ftrongeft lands to wheat every three years, and 
the lighter and more expofed parts every four; and 
they fhould not be permitted to fow their old burn- 
beak land oftener than every fix years. 
A term of twelve years feems, therefore, to be 
the moft appropriate to the general hufbandry of 
South-Wilts, 
Proper 
