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may be variously filled up, accordingly as objects and 

 circumstances require. 



I have not ventured, with a new tenant, to give a 

 lease for more than three years. Trials of temper, 

 industry, and management, are as necessary, in this 

 kind of co-partnership, as is integrity. Those who have 

 given any tolerable satisfaction, have always remained. 

 Several have held over under the terms, without actual 

 renewal of the lease, for many years. And these terms 

 have been kept (never as exactly as they should have 

 been) as well without as with the renewal of the instru- 

 ment. A perfectly good tenant in this country, where 

 property is so easily acquired, is so rare ; that I have 

 generally found it prudent to be patient with one who 

 was not absolutely bad ; and to be easy, under many 

 things I did not approve, with one above mediocrity. 



Yours truly, 



Richard Peters. 



Dr. James Mease. 



Secretary of the Philad, Sac, for promoting Agricidtiire, 



