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Such covenants are much more advan-^ 

 tageous to landlords, as well as tenants^ 

 than allowing barley or oats to fucceed 

 wheat. 



III. Tenants not to dig up any grafs bor- 

 ders .of folds ^ 



This is a very common covenant in 

 many parts of England, and a more ridi- 

 culous one cannot well find its way into a 

 leafe* It is chiefly to be met with in rich 

 countries, that is, precifely in thofe where it , 

 is the m ft pernicious. In all wet foils* or 

 fuch as are inclined to moifture, the borders 

 of fields ihould be twelve inches at leaft 

 lower than the fields themfelves, for the 

 general purppfe of draining the furfaee, 

 and likewife to fave the expence of ufelefs 

 water furrows. Where borders are higher 

 than t;he field, deep water furrows muft al- 

 ways be kept open, parallel with them. 



So far from not digging them up, they 

 ought to be -conftantly kept down by dig*- 

 ging them frequently, for the turning of 

 the ploughing inereafes the headland fo 

 much> that a rifmg is found in a few years, 

 which fhould always be dug up and carted 

 on to the land ; and the whole border left 



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