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Fortunately, however, for all parties con- 

 cerned, removals have, until very lately, been 

 little pradtifed in the Vale : for a worfe time 

 or a worfe mode could fcarccly be devifed. 

 Old Ladyday is the middle of fpring feed- 

 time ; — ftock are flill in the houfc ; — the hay 

 and ft raw partly eaten, and in part to eat •, — 

 and at that time of the year the roads, having 

 been foaked and cut up during winter, and 

 Hiffcned by the winds of March, are in their 

 very worfl: Hate. Thefe are difadvantages 

 to the outgoing tenant. The inconveniencies 

 of an incoming tenant entering upon a farm 

 ueilitute of manure, and materials to raife it 

 from, need not be enumerated. 



In Ckvekmdy the time of removal is much 

 more judicious. The incoming tenant takes 

 poffcdion of the arable land at Candlemas, — 

 of the paOure grounds at Ladyday, and of 

 the mowing grounds at Mayday; — when 

 the outgoing tenant quits every thing but 

 the wheat. 



Thefe regulations are admirably adapted to. 

 REMOVALS INT SPRING, and render them more 

 eligible in many refpefts than Michael- 

 mas REMOVALS, even when tempered with 



the 



