262 Lease of a Farm, on Shares. 
may be variously filled up, danas as objects and 
circumstances require. 
Ihave not ventured, with a new tenant, to give a 
lease for more than three years. Trials of temper, 
industry, and management, are as necessary, in this 
kind of co-partnership, as is integrity. Those who have 
given any tolerable satisfaction, have always remained. 
Several have held over under the terms, without actual 
renewal of the lease, for many years. And these terms 
have been kept (never as exactly as they should have 
been) as well without as with the renewal of the instru- 
ment. A perfectly good tenant in this country, where 
property is so easily acquired, is so rare; that I have 
generally found it prudent to be patient with one who 
was not absolutely bad; and to be easy, under many 
things I did not approve, with one above mediocrity, 
Yours truly, 
Ricuarp PETERS. 
Dr. James MEASE. 
Secretary of the Philad. Soc. for promoting Agriculture. 
