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itandingSy (which but too often prevails) is 
part of the cause of these unpleasant observa- 
tions. 
There are instances where tlie obstinacy, 
of the farmer proinj^ts him to forego his own 
interest, in nine parts of the proouce of Iris 
farm, to defeat the parson of his in the tenth; 
but tliis is one of those evils which will cor- 
rect itself. The farmer who pursues such 
a line of conducf for any length of time, 
must be inevitably ruined ; when he will 
make room for one who will adopt a dif- 
ferent line of condiidf, and thus profit by the 
error of his predecessor. 
The too general cuUivation of hops, as a means 
of exhausting the necessary manure which 
ought to be employed in the regular culti- 
vation of a farm, has been already agitated ; 
therefore it^nly remains for us here to ob- 
serve, that the proprietors of land,. from a re- 
gard to their own interest, will v,'atch over the 
cultivation of tlie soil witliout any inter- 
ference of the Legislature to pass a law to 
prohibit the cultivation of hops. That every 
