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ftewarJ, where any attention has been paid either to 

 regularity or convenience. 



It is the pradice for the proprietor, to furnifh 

 materials, (except draw for thatch), and the tenant 

 to be at all the expence of other repairs. And 

 therefore, conlidering the uncertainty of the te- 

 nure on which he holds them, it is no wonder that 

 he fhould allow the houfes to fall into a ruinous 

 condition. Upon the whole, it is certain that the 

 farm-houfes in this diftrid, are not kept in that 

 tenantable ftate of repair, which is for the mutual 

 intereft of the landlord and tenant. 



The farm-houfes are built either of ftone or brick, 

 and covered with flute or flraw. The barns, which 

 are very large in proportion to the farm, owing to 

 the pradice which here prevails of houfmg as much 

 of the crop as poffible, are either built wholly of 

 ftone, and clay ufed as cement ; or partly of itone 

 wall, on which a houfe framed of wood (generally 

 oak) is ereded, and plaftered over the fides with 

 clay. They are commonly thatched with ftraw. 

 The byres, ftables, i^c. are generally built of ftone, 

 and covered in the fame manner, and with the fame 

 materials as the barns. 



IMPLEMENTS of HUSBANDRY. 



The waggons, carts, rollers, and other implements 

 of huft)andry, are fo fimilar to thofe in ufe in the 

 neighbouring counties, and which have been fully 

 defcribed in fome of thefe reports, particularly in 

 that of Leicefter, that it is deemed unneceflary to fill 

 up this report, with what would have fo much the 

 appearance of repetition. 



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