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the young fhoots are fufficiently ftrong to fmothet 
the weeds. Alder coppices are cut at 12 years 
growth, and are worth from 151. to 25]. per acre. 
Leafes.—\ know of nothing commendable in the 
leafes of diftrict; a good plain form, equally pra-~ 
tecting the intereft of landlord and tenant, is much 
wanting, if poffible to be drawn. At prefent they 
are chiefly in profeffional hands, who either content 
themfelves with antiquated copies, or, in order to 
- guard again{t trifling inconveniencies, cramp the 
induftrious tenant, fo as often to prevent improve- 
ments to the advantage of himfelf, his landlord, 
and the community; whilft, at the fame time, they 
do not prevent the knave and floven from running 
into the contrary extreme. 
It has already been noticed, that this diftrict has 
been greatly improved of late years; it is ftill im- — 
proving, nor isany fpirit of that fort wanting; but 
it might be greatly affifted by the removal of fome 
of the burthens that the farming world in general 
labour under. Among thefe, the payment of tithes 
in kind deferve to be mentioned. In the new in- 
clofures, this load has been got rid of by giving up 
a part of the property in lieu of it. One-fifth of 
the arable, and one-ninth of the pafture, and in fome 
inftances, two-ninths of one, and one-eighth of the 
other, has been afked and agreed to. As the im~ 
propriator is exonerated from all expences, except 
infide fences, the part that he takes is more than 
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