OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 195 



Tenants in general are fo wretchedly poor, that a 

 great length of time elapfes before any permanent ad- 

 vantage can derive to them from the improvement of 

 their farms. Indeed it is too frequently the cafe, that, 

 during the whole courfe of the leafe, for want of 

 means or ability, the farm does not yield probably 

 one-fourth of what it might have done under good 

 management, and laying out fome money early, for 

 ditching, draining, liming, &c. 



Inftead of the landlord being a lofer by this mode, 

 he would find, at the expiration of the leafe, a great 

 benefit, and encreafe of property. 



If, for example, a farm confifls of twenty acres, at 

 io/. a year upon^a thirty-one years leafe, let the laud- 

 lord, for the firft fifteen years, advance 3/. a year, to 

 be laid out in draining, liming, &c. The next fixteea 

 years, the rent may be raifed to 1 3/. a year. By this 

 mode, the landlord will be nothing out of pocket ; and 

 it is very plain, that no intereft, accruing from 45/., 

 could be equal to the encreafed value of the land, at 

 the expiration of the leafe. 



There might be other modes adopted, to enable the 

 tenant to get on, according to circumilances ; I only 

 fuggeft this as a hint. 



It is evident, that long leafes muft be a powerful 



means of improving lands. Upon fhort leafes, fuch as 



twenty-one years, men have no fpirit to get forward, 



and efpecially where confidence does not exift between 



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