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the farmer muft not plough it ; fuch a 

 covenant is abfurd and intolerable. 



Some fanners, and even landlords, lay 

 down fields for continued paflures with a 

 large portion of ray-grafs, among other 

 forts : A new tenant will find fuch paftures 

 facred from the plough ; that is, he will 

 have fields under what is called grafs, that 

 will, in a few years, be not worth a groat 

 an acre ; ftill he is not to plough them 

 up. Do fuch covenants require any com- 

 ment ? 



Many foils yield exceeding fine crops of 

 grafs, for feven, eight, or ten years, and 

 then decline, notwithftanding the beft ma- 

 nagement : fuch fliould be kept alternately 

 under grafs and ploughing. In grafs for 

 ten years, then arable for four or five, and 

 laid down again. But none of this bene- 

 ficial husbandry can be pradifed, when a 

 landlord will not allow any grafs to be 

 ploughed up. 



For thefe and many other reafons, a 

 tenant fhould be upon his guard, when he 

 hires a- farm under this covenant, that he 

 does not prejudife himfelf in fo material a 

 point. Ancl as a means of not being 



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