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signed in duplicate, so that each party may have an 

 original. 



2. Insert such covenants as to repairs, manner of 

 use and in restraint of waste, as the circumstances 

 call for. As to particular stipulations, examine leases 

 drawn by those who have had long experience in 

 renting farms, and adopt such as meet your case. 



3. There should be covenants against assigning 

 and underletting. 



4. If the tenant is of doubtful responsibility, make 

 the rent payable in installments. A covenant that 

 the crops shall remain in the lessor's till the lessee's 

 contracts with him have been fulfilled, is valid against 

 the lessee's creditors. In the ordinary case of rent- 

 ing farms on shares, the courts will treat the crops as 

 the joint property of landlord and tenant, and thus 

 protect the former's rights. 



5. Every lease should contain stipulations for for- 

 feiture and re-entry in case of non-payment or breach 

 of any covenants. 



6. To prevent a tenant's committing waste, the 

 courts will grant an injunction. 



7. Above all, be careful in selecting your tenant. 

 There is more in the man than there is in the bond. 



Philosophical Facts. 



The greatest height at which visible clouds ever 

 exist does not exceed ten miles. 



Air is about eight hundred and fifteen times lighter 

 than water. 



The pressure of the atmosphere upon every square 



