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day, when they can gather wheat to the amount 

 of jj. per day, 



Refpeding agreements or leafes betwixt 

 landlord and tenant, it is almoft impofTible to 

 give any general rule. For fmall farms leafes 

 are lefs neceflary ; but a large one cannot well 

 be let without a leafe. Upon a fm.all farm 

 where land is good, a man*s improvements 

 foon come round : and if tenant and landlord 

 difagrce, either of them is eafily accommoda- 

 ted 3 but upon a large farm it is quite the re- 

 verfe. It v/ould not be worth a man's while 

 to fix himfelf upon a large fcale for a year or 

 two, and it would be attended with great ex- 

 pence and lofs to move from any great dif- 

 tance with large quantities of (lock for any 

 fhort time. Befides, the plans of improve- 

 ments upon a large farm are more extenfive, 

 and it is longer before the money expended is 

 refunded, efpecially upon poor land. But, un* 

 doubtedly, the tenant upon either a fmall or 

 large farm ought to have a fecurity for his pro- 

 perty ; and there ought to be an agreement to 

 allow him a proportionate recompence for eve- 

 ry improvement by which he has raifed the 



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