94 CULTIVATED GRASSES. 11. 



In tenants at will, without confidence in 

 their landlords, there may be fome excufe 

 for fuch management* But they are not, 

 perhaps, aware that by fueh conduct 

 they are deftroying that confidence which 

 landlords ought to have in their tenants : 

 thereby militating againft themfelves and 

 their profeffion. 



Landed gentlemen in general ate tenacious 

 of their old grafsland : and with good rea- 

 fon : even though it might, for a time, be 

 worth thrice the value in a ftate of aration. 



An inftanee occurs in this neighbourhood, 

 in which a piece of old grafsland broken up to 

 arable has thrown out its purchafe-value, as 

 grafslahd at the time of breaking, up, in the 

 firft three crops* 



All fward, unlefs- the foil be fmgularly* 

 good, the management extraordinary, and the 

 manurings frequent, will in time become un- 

 productive. Even the fward of well-foiled 

 commons, off which no produce has been 

 taken, is, when inclofed, found weak and un- 

 profitable. 



Neverthelefs, it may be more prudent ill 

 men of landed eilates to hand down their old 



grafsland 



