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Excerpt from The Farmer's Magazine, 1803, Vol. 4: A Periodical Work Exclusively Devoted to Agriculture, and Rural Affairs In a word, I am decidedly of opinion that the general claufe, if it is applied to cropping, is of a mifchievous tendency to the farming interelt of Scotland. I have witne i: d this in many in fiancrs, and been amazed to fee it fupported by reafons diree'tly contradie'tory. I remember well of being concerned in a remit from the fuperior court, in company with two gentlemen of ac knowledged abilities. The bufinefs hinged almolt entirely upon the quantity of wheat (own; for the farm under confideration was in excellent order. One of my coadjutors maintained, that the tenant had contravened the leafe, becaufe he had not fol lowed out a regular rotation of fours or fixes and that, without adhering to fame one or other of there rotations, no hufbandry could be good - I don't care a halfpenny, fays my other friend, what mode of cropping has been praetifed, providing one half of the farm is under green crops. The tenant may make wheat of the Other half, if he pleafes but for all the acres in culmiferous crops above that half, I maintain that he is liable in damages. In this way are tenants often treated at the conclufion of a leafe, which furely does not hold out much encouragement to the in troduelion of fubllantial improvements at an earlier {lage I mean, foch as are gained from draining, liming, and grazing the land, - feeing that occupiers may be deprived, in a legal manner, of reaping the full fruits of luch improvements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."