years, under an engagement (if required) 

 to lay them well down again. Such old 

 and forfaken grafs fields are to be reckoned 

 among the moft profitable paftures. But 

 the rent mould not be above i o s. an acre. 



CHAP. II. 



Of the Contiguity of the Fields. 



COMMON farmers too often overlook this 

 circumftance. If they attended to it 

 as much as their profit required, we mould 

 fee landlords reforming their eftates, in this 

 particular, more than at prefent is the cafe. 

 There is not a more expenfive perplexing 

 circumftance in any farm, than the fields 

 being in a ftraggling, disjointed fituation. 

 The difadvantages are numerous and ftrik- 

 ing. 



I. The farmer's bufmefs is in no refpects 

 under his eye. He muft take a walk, and 

 perhaps a ride, through other meus grounds-, 

 to difcover or view any circumftance of 

 which he wants to be acquainted. If fields 

 in fuch a fituation are no further diftant 

 than many of his contiguous ones, yet will 



they 



