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CHAP. XVII. 
OBSTACLES TO IMPROVEMENT. 
INCLUDING GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON AGRICULTURAL 
LEGISLATION AND POLICE. 
Tythes have been before mentioned as obstacles to 
the improvement of all cultivated lands where they 
are taken in kind ; they are particularly complained of 
in those articles, which require a laboured or operose 
cultivation. 
THE WANT OF LEASES. 
Proprietors granting leases for a sufficient length of 
time, would tend to excite a spirit of improvement in 
the occupiers, not only in the tillage land, but in the 
grass land and planting. The latter practice, I am 
sorry to see neglected ; as in most farms there are some 
pieces, or placks, that might be fixed for some kind of 
plantation. The improvement of all quickset fences, I 
think the country more behind in, than in most other.— 
Mr. Oldacre 
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