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should be misused. During the last four years, 

 if a renewed lease is not entered upon, he is to 

 bring the farm into the ordinary four-course or 

 Norfolk system, with proper conditions of pay- 

 ment for unexhausted manures. He is to 

 effectually destroy all rabbits on his farm, 

 and other usual conditions, adapted to local 

 circumstances, complete the arrangement. The 

 leading principle of this admirable lease is 

 applicable to all parts of the United Kingdom. 

 It supplies the great defect of most leases, 

 and especially those of Scotland, in giving 

 entire freedom to the action of the farmer 

 in the cultivation and disposal of the produce 

 up to four years preceding the termination, 

 when an opportunity is given to both to 

 consider the question of renewal. If that 

 is satisfactorily arranged, the same freedom of 

 management continues, and the farmer is not 

 exposed to that harassing competition, the 

 fear of which compels him to reduce the con- 

 dition of his land in the closing years of his 

 tenancy. If, on the other hand, it is found 

 expedient ^that a change should be made. 



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