35$ AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF chap. XVI. 



all the improvements, judged necessary to be 

 made upon the farm, be specified in the lease, 

 and the tenant taken bound to have them exe- 

 cuted during the currency of the first period. 

 And in case he shall not accomplish these im- 

 provements in the time agreed upoft, let this fai- 

 lure be a forfeiture of his lease, and the landlord 

 be entitled to remove him, and resume the pos- 

 session of his land. Let the tenant be at liber- 

 ty to resign his farm, if he shall think proper, 

 at the end of the first period. And, upon his 

 removal, whether at the end of the first or second 

 period, let him be bound to put and to leave his 

 farm in the state and under the conditions men- 

 tioned at the conclusion of the Section respect- 

 ing leases, (see page I22.\. And should any dif- 

 ference or dispute arise between the landlord and 

 tenant, respecting the implementing the above, 

 or any other conditions contained in the lease, 

 let the parties be obliged to refer such differen- 

 ces and disputes to the judgment of neutral men 

 mutually chosen, and to abide by their determi- 

 nation. 



By this plan the interest of both proprietor 

 and tenant are consulted and provided for, and, 

 at the same time, the most effectual provision 

 made for hastening and perfecting the improve- 

 ment of the farm. 



Dr Anderson speaks with rapture of the asto- 

 nishing height to which he supposes improve- 

 ment might be carried, in the course of a hun- 

 dred years, by Lord Kames's plan. But I 

 should imagine, that the greatest part of the 

 farms in Scotland, if not improved completely 

 within the period of 42 years, supposing them 



