This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... proprietors strongly feel (what I would impress upon all) the value and necessity of a personal and minute superintendence of their respective tenantry. Nothing will tend more to increase and secure their rents; wherever this takes place there will be more comfort, more industry, less irregularity and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... proprietors strongly feel (what I would impress upon all) the value and necessity of a personal and minute superintendence of their respective tenantry. Nothing will tend more to increase and secure their rents; wherever this takes place there will be more comfort, more industry, less irregularity and less arrear. The resident landlord, who adopts this useful practice, will soon find profit and pleasure to result from it. The natural dependence even of a prosperous tenantry upon the proprietor of the land they cultivate, creates a connexion which, cemented by attachment, becomes almost indissoluble--but this attachment must proceed from something more than the usual conduct of landlords, meaning well to their tenants, and directing their agents to show them indulgence as to the payment of moderate rents. This will not insure the regard for which a landlord ought to seek--those who pay punctually will consider the obligation on his side, and those who do not (amongst whom are some who never) pay, will throughout all the successive stages of demand, remonstrance, menace, distress, and eviction, attribute their pressure to any thing but their own irregularity, and angrily look upon the agent and his employer, as inimical, instead of friendly, to their interests. How different, where the landed proprietor has the opportunity of a superintending intercourse with his tenantry, and avails himself of it with kindness, firmness, and judgment: --his presence is welcomed, with respect, by the affluent farmer, and hailed with gratitude at every cottage upon his estate. He becomes personally known to all around him; every kind word he utters sinks deep into their hearts, and his advice is received as a command. For who would be so ungenerous as to..
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