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tlie fyftem of agriculture. But if a general rife of 

 rent fliould take place, it will be neceflary to fscure 

 the tenant that permanent intereft in the farm, 

 which will entitle him, with propriety, to adopt 

 thofe means of improvement which will enable him 

 todojuftice both to the landlord and himlelf. It 

 may be added, that if leafes were granted on a rea- 

 sonable advance of rent, and for 19 or 21 years 

 the community at large, as well as the individuals 

 more immediately interefted, would be benefited 

 thereby; and this particular diftrid, which is fo 

 favourably fituated, would, in a few years, be one of 

 the beft cultivated in the kingdom. 



IMPROVEMENTS SUGGESTED, 



From the preceding account of the modes of cul- 

 tivation adopted in this diftridl, it appears that about 

 one third of the tillage lands have been for ages, and 

 are ftill continued, under a conftant courfe of corn- 

 cropping. It is not neceflary to point out at greater 

 length the impropriety of an adherence to this fy- 

 ftem, nor to recapitulate the reafons (lated for re- 

 commending fo flrongly an alteration in the manage- 

 ment of the commons and woodlands. What has been 

 already ftated, will, it is to be hoped, induce the 

 proprietors, and thofe immediately concerned, to turn 

 their attention to thofe objeds, and their own good 

 fenfe, more than any thing that can be ftated in a 

 report of this kind, will enable them to adopt fuch 

 meafures, as are moft likely to promote the improve- 

 ment of the country, in thefe refpeds. 



There is a very fmall proportion of what may be 

 called the old inclofed lands at prefent under the 

 plough, and whether it is owing to that univerfal 

 prejudice which has long prevailed among land- 

 lords, againft the breaking up of old pafture fields, 

 to want of activity in the occupiers, or to the im- 

 proper manner in which they were at firft laid 



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