146 WANT OF LEASES. 



may easily be avoided by occasional exchanges, 

 between neighbours having stock similar in 

 breed but not related. These I conceive are 

 fixed rules everywhere, in the proper manage- 

 ment of stock. 



But no breed of cattle can possibly thrive, 

 if not sheltered from inclement weather, and 

 therefore the practice of exposing stock in 

 open fields, to the rigour of a North American 

 winter, must be condemned as beyond mea- 

 sure incongruous, the disadvantages by loss of 

 manure and injury to the cattle, which arise 

 from it being incalculable. 



Further as indispensable to the introduction 

 of tenants from Britain, I would to proprietors 

 who do not farm their own land, but commit 

 its cultivation partly or wholly to others, reite- 

 rate my recommendation of the adoption of a 

 judicious system of LEASING. 



As far as I could perceive, the common de- 

 scription of rural tenantry in America, are a 

 sort of contractors, who agree to plough and 

 crop a portion of land by the year, and to de- 



