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If the paftures and meadows are over- 

 run with ant hills, buflies, brambles, ^c, 

 fuch are the marks of bad huibandry, and 

 muft no longer appear ^ If a tenant can 

 afford to pay rent for fuch, no proof is 

 requifite that he can pay a greater rent for 

 better land. 



If a farm confills all of arable land, a 

 tenant murt find great inconvenience for 

 want of fome grafs — —he cannot, or Vv'ill 

 not lay any down — but that is not the cafe 

 with the landlord. 



If the grafs fields of a farm are without 

 water, the inconvenience and mifchief to 

 cattle is very greats but where is the te- 

 nant that will dig ponds ? 



If the teams, and carts, and waggons on 

 a farm are fpeedily worn out with carting 

 through home-roads that are very deep and 

 bad, the annual expenceto a tenant is very 

 great 5 but you are not to expect that they 

 will make good roads, how well foever it 

 may anfwer to a landlord. 



If the buildings on a farm are extremely 

 inconvenient— bad in thcmfelves— too few 

 —-or fituated in too ftraggling a manner ; 

 no tenant could with any prudence remedy 



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