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time the fruit, or young timber trees, fhould be 

 pruned up. 



When the hedge is new plafhed, it (hoots out 

 very vigoroufly, and thefe frefti young (hoots arc 

 very tempting to cattle. They fhould therefore be 

 well fecured; and if you can avoid it, never feed 

 cattle in the field that fame year. But if fome 

 cattle muft be paftured there, horfes will do far 

 lefs injury than cows, oxen, or fhecp ; the latter are 

 word of all. The bed feafon for plafhing, as well 

 as for planting quick-hedges, is February. 



I (hall now add a few obfervations relative to 

 the advantage arifing from quick-hedges. This 

 greatly depends on the care taken by the farmer, 

 at the time of plafhing, to fee the work done 

 himfelf. If he leaves it to carelefs and negligent 

 workmen, the labour and cod of years may be loft 

 in a day. 



If hedges were of no other ufe than as fences, 

 it would be the farmer's intereft to keep them up 

 carefully ; for the better they are, the more fecure 

 are his cattle and crops. But if a judicious mix- 

 ture of cyder fruit-trees were planted in hedges, 

 the profit arifing from them only would abundantly 

 repay all the coft of the whole, without any lofs 



of ground. 



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