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IV. The hay made in each pafture to be 

 fed in that pafture. 



This covenant I have known in more 

 leafes than one ; and a more wretched one 

 cannot be imagined. There is not a more 

 pernicious cuftom than that of feeding the 

 hay in the fields. The grafs is poached, 



there is no manure raifed, and the hay 



itfelf is half wafted. I would never fuffer 

 a tenant to ftack a fmgle load in the field ; 

 but infift on all being led home to the ftack- 

 yard, I would not hire the beil grafs farm 

 in England under fuch a covenant. 



V. Turnips not to be fed on the land. 



In countries that know any thing of the 

 turnip culture, the very mention of this 

 covenant is fufficient to raife a fmile of in- 

 dignation : And yet I have reafon to infert 

 it here, for it was actually put into my 

 own leafe on a farm, part of it a dry gra- 

 velly foil ; but I rejected it : It is, however, 

 a common covenant in many leafes, and I 

 fuppofe had its original among the Irifh, 

 when they burnt their dunghills, and 

 made their horfes draw by the tail. 



If a farm, however, is all a clay foil, and 



wet, this is no bad interdict ; but it would 



D 2 be 



