Even where tenant-right is admitted in name, it is obvious that the rent may be raised so high as to make the farm worth nothing in the market.

To give to the tenant throughout the country generally the pleasant feeling that his farm is his castle, which he can make worth more money every day he rises, there must be a public letting valuation, and this the State could easily provide.

And then there should be the right of sale to the highest solvent bidder.
This might be one way of securing permanent tenure, or stimulating the industry and sustaining the thrift of the farmer.

But the nature of the different tenures, and the effect of each in bracing up or relaxing the nerves of industry, will be the object of deliberation with the Government and the legislature.

It is said that, in the hands of small farmers, proprietorship leads to endless subdivision; that long leases generally cause bad husbandry; that tenants-at-will often feel themselves more secure and safe than a contract could make them; that families have lived on the same farm for generations without a scrape of a pen except the receipt for rent.