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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, ii it is applied to cropping, is of a mifchievous tendency to the farming interelt of Scotland. I have witnefl'ed this in many in flances, and been amazed to fee it fupported by reafons directly contradielory. Lremember well of being concerned in a remit from the fuperior court, in company with two gentlemen of ace knowledged abilities. The bufinefs hinged almolt entirely upon the quantity of wheat fowo; for the farm under confideration was in excellent order. One of my coadjutors maintained. That the tenant had contravened the leafe, becaufe he had nor fol lowed out a regular rotation of fours or fixes and that, without adhering to fome one or other of thele rotations, no hufbandry could be good. - l don't care a halfpenny, fays my other friend what mode of cropping has been praftifed, provnding one half of the farm is under green now. The tenant may make wheat of the other half, if he pleafes but for all the acres in culmiferona crops above that half, I maintain that he is liable in damages. In this way are tenants often treated at the conclulion of a leafe. Which furely does not hold out much encouragdtnent to the ia troduflion of fubllantial improvements at an earlier Rage 5 I mean, luch 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. If the general claufe is confined to what appears to me to be its original and true object, viz. Keeping the land clean and in as good heart as pofiible, then my oppofition is at an end; but when it is applied to the mode of cropping, or to the kind of grain raifcd upon a farm, it opens a door for endlefs litigation. The fame rule can fcarcely be eligible over all the farms of a fin gle parifh, but mufi be utterly wide of jultice when the praflice of a country is meafured by it. It fubjecls the management of praftical and experienced farmers to the judgement of law courts, who cannot be fuppofed to pofi'efs the means of information. The farmers of Scotland will indeed deferve pity if their management is to be fubjecled to foch a review. If the beft method of crop ping a farm is to be determined on the Bench, Sir William Pul teney may recall his donation for erecting a profeflbrlhip. 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.

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