154 THE LANDED INTEREST. 



cultivate and manage the farm during the first 

 sixteen years according to his own judgment, 

 and to dispose of the produce as he finds best. 

 A power is reserved to interpose if this freedom 

 should be misused. During the last four years, 

 if a renewed lease is not entered upon, he is to 

 bring the farm into the ordinary four-course or 

 Norfolk system, with proper conditions of pay- 

 ment for unexhausted manures. He is to 

 effectually destroy all rabbits on his farm, 

 and other usual conditions, adapted to local 

 circumstances complete the arrangement. The 

 leading principle of this admirable lease is 

 applicable to all parts of the United Kingdom. 

 It supplies the great defect of most leases, 

 and especially those of Scotland, in giving 

 entire freedom to the action of the farmer 

 in the cultivation and disposal of the produce 

 up to four years preceding the termination, 

 when an opportunity is given to both to 

 consider the question of renewal. If that 

 is satisfactorily arranged, the same freedom of 

 management continues, and the farmer is not 

 exposed to that harassing competition, the 



