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require to be fown ? It is high prices that 

 fets the farmer upon cultivating uncom- 

 mon crops. It is not beneficial for the 

 manufactures of this kingdom that flax and 

 teafils, for inftance, fhould be extrava- 

 gantly dear ; but that farmers mould in- 

 creafe the culture of them, as the beft me- 

 thod of reducing their price. This cove- 

 nant, therefore, is in diredT: oppofition to 

 the kingdom's intereft; which, like all 

 public matters, one would fuppofe to give 

 place to private intereft ; but here it gives 

 place to private caprice. 



There is no vegetable of fo exhaufting 

 9. nature, but may be cultivated to the 

 mutual benefit of the tenant and landlord; 

 if it is not fo, it muft be owing alone to a 

 want of proper management. 



This covenant may in many cafes (except 

 oats) be of no confequence to a tenant ; but 

 there are others in which his agreement to 

 it muft fubmit to a valuation per acre of 

 deducted rent. It all depends on the foil of 

 the farm. 



Thefe covenants might be. multiplied 

 greatly, but the above are fufficient to cau- 

 tion 



