266 REPORTS FROM LOCAL SOCIETIES. 



y^e have a full fence. On the other hand we have to support our present 

 amount of fence for four years and pay for it two and a half years before we 

 get any returns in usefulness from a hedge fence. 



Now we have two leading fences of the day before us, or the two that are 

 being introduced, for us to pass judgment on or choose between. The one a 

 full wire, sufficiently tight to turn all kinds of stock, one that will need little 

 or no care for years, one that is ornamental as well as useful and that without 

 continual care. 



With my means of judging I should much prefer the wire. How could we 

 live up to the old saying, "Wlien a task is once begun, never leave it till its 

 done/*' with the hedge? 



