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can be done by them to improve the soil and 

 render it duly productive. 



In agricultural business it is well known 

 there are two extremes ; at the one extreme 

 is placed the reckless speculator who catches 

 at every new theory however visionary ; at 

 the other, he with whom a sufficient reason 

 for avoiding every improvement however much 

 recommended by experience, is just that it is 

 an interference with old rules and habits. 

 Now, although Mr Wordsworth is an acute 

 well informed man who must have seen well 

 and far before him, having at an early period 

 made an extensive purchase of land at a price 

 greatly under the value to which time and cir 

 cumstances have raised it, yet it appears to 

 me he is much wedded to old customs, other 

 wise he would at once perceive the advantage 

 of dividing his estate into farms of a proper 

 size, erecting on them suitable buildings, and 

 granting leases for such a term of years as 

 would ensure to the tenants a return for money 

 expended on improvements. By similar means 

 and by establishing and stipulating for judicious 



