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locates a probability of all the grass fields being 

 well watered: that is, for rattle. 



Size Another matter of great import, in the 

 hiring a farm, is the taking no larger a one, th; 4 * 

 the sum of monev a man can comma!) \ will suvk 



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properly. A common fault among farmers X the 

 hiring too much land for their money; they are ex- 

 tremely eager to farm as much as possible: the cer- 

 tain consequences of which is the c- Mi-luctin^ tin* 

 soil in an imperfect manner. In the neighbour 

 of great cities and towns, variety of manures ar< m 

 be had, in some places cheap; but, if the fanner* 

 have not money, how are they to make use of 

 advantages? For these, and other reasons, a far 

 nier should not think, of venturing on a tract of land 

 which he cannot command; that is, farm as seems 

 best to him. 



Contiguity of ike Fields. Many farmers U.M 

 often overlook this circumstance: if they attended 

 to it as much as their profit required, we should 

 see landlords reforming their estates in this par- 

 ticular, more than many do at present. There is 

 not a more expensive, perplexing circumstance in 

 a farm, than the fields being in a straggling, dis- 

 jointed situation. The disadvantages are numerous 

 and striking. 



Covenants. Many landlords are very tenacious of 

 the covenants which they have usually insertCvl m 

 their leases; so that a man, when lie approves a 

 farm and agrees to the rent, may find the conditions 

 of tenure proposed to him, such as are incompatible 



with 



