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a farm, and purchasing stock and implements at the public sale of the 

 outgoing tenant, unless the bailiff was aware of what was going on 

 around him, the landlord was sure to pay high for any cattle or imple- 

 ments bought for him, as it generally happened that the outgoing tenant, 

 being aware of the landlord's intention to purchase at his sale, arranged 

 to have some one to bid against the bailiff, and put whatever he pur- 

 chased to a high figure Even in a mutual agreement to have a fair 

 valuation of the stock and crop on the farm it becomes the business of 

 the bailiff to look sharply after his master's interests. I would recom- 

 mend any landed proprietor about to enter a farm to stock it entirely 

 anew, and purchase nothing from the outgoing tenant. In most cases it 

 will be found that better and more improved implements can be bought 

 as cheap, and more to the ultimate benefit of the farm, than any which 

 the outgoing tenant is likely to have. 



