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the grubbing up of hedge-rows for the enlarging 

 fields and improving arable ground is become com- 

 mon in the county ? 



. • I ■ » . ... 



A, From the convcrfion of pafture land to arablej 



the enlargement of fields, and above all, the mif- 



chievous pra^ice of both the farmer and the poor, 



of trimming up, and cutting off all the lateral 



branches, the trees in the hedge-rows are few and 



little worth in many places, 



^. 5, Whether in fuch oaken woods as are cut 

 at dated times in fucceflion, it is cuftomary to leave 

 young faplings at each cutting? and if fo, whether 

 they are generally barked at the fecond fall and cut 

 down for country ufes, or preferved for timber ? 



' A. There is in every part of the county proper 

 attention paid to the leaving young faplings, which 

 are never barked at the fecond fall, nor felled for 

 country ufes : Fir being in almoft general ufe, ex- 

 cept when oak is abfolutely necefTary. 



^ 6. Whether the improvement of roads and 

 the navigable canals, made during the lafl thirty 

 ycat^, have not, by reducing the cxpence of carriage, 

 bceh the means of bringing large fupplies to the 

 Dock-yards, which could not othen^ife have bcca 

 brought there? A. The 



