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be as well to prohibit turnips, in that cafe, 

 altogether. 



VI. A prohibition from f owing particular 

 crops-t fuch as oats, ftax, rape^ teafils^ &c. 

 &c. 



Thefe are common covenants through- 

 out many eftates fituated on rich foils. 

 Landlords areapprehenfive, that the virtue 

 of their land will be exhaufted by them ; 

 yet this idea is at beft but weak. It is un- 

 reafonable that a tenant fhould have land in 

 his hands, and be prevented from applying 

 it to the beft ufe, without an injury to the 

 owner; and his own intereft will force 

 him, whether he would or not, to be at- 

 tentive to the good of the land, in being 

 careful of his own advantage. Except 

 oats and rape, none of thefe crops will an- 

 fwer without plenty of manure, and un- 

 common tillage, in preparing as well as 

 hoeing, weeding, .&c.; infomuch that the 

 moft exhaufting crop, in its nature, may 

 eafily be turned into the moft ameliorating 

 one. Lucerne, I thinfc, muft be of a 

 very exhaufting nature ; for the roots are 

 immenfe,. and the quantity of the produce 

 prodigious; and yet it is well known by 



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