14 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



but an injury to the community. Now here I think T present a 

 practical point. You can each one of you, if you have not 

 already done it, remove your roadside fences, and leave your 

 6elds open to the gaze of the passers-by, and make them not only 

 a source of pleasure to the looker-on but a source of pride to 

 yourselves. Will you not do it, and show that the fanners of 

 Maine are doing something for their own betterment and credit? 



Mr. Bailey of Bath. I suppose I shall be called an old fogy 

 and I have no doubt I am. I am in favor of having my land 

 fenced. I don't like to see a pasture fenced for twenty rods, and 

 then the field all open, I don't like to travel on a road of that 

 kind. I presume you will say my eyes are not straight. I would 

 inquire why those who wish to leave their land opan in this way, 

 don't leave their houses open at night? There is beauty and 

 system to my eyes in a farm that is fenced, and with regard to its 

 cost, the '" almighty dollar" isn't the only thing to be taken iuto 

 consideration. Gentlemen speak of useless fences, but they don't 

 tell us what useless fences are. AVould the owner of a field that 

 cuts sixty or eighty tons of hay call the fences round that field 

 useless ? I do not call fences round my farm .ir by the road use- 

 less. There are cattle that get out unexpectedly, and if they get 

 into your corn it will cost more than the fences would. I see 

 before me a gentleman who has a farm not far from where I live, 

 and he has taken pains to build good road fences along his lot. I 

 think he is to be commended for it. It shows that he is indus- 

 trious, and I should recommend to all my friends to fence their 

 farms and be at peace. 



Mr. Ten'ney of the Brunswick Telegraph. I am as much of an 

 old fogy as my friend Bailey, and I will quarrel with any man 

 who wants to fence me in. Statements have been made that the 

 cost of fencing in New York is more than the cost of building. Mr. 

 Bailey says he would build road fences ; if I understand aright the 

 law does not require that I should fence out my neighbor's cows. 

 We have had more trouble in the village of Brunswick from stray 

 cows than there has been anywhere else. I venture, on the face of 

 the earth. The proprietors of Brunswick about the middle of the 

 last century conceived the idea of giving to the town 1,000 acres 

 of this sandy land. Some gentlemen appropriated 150 acres of it, 

 so that the town of Brunswick now holds 850 acres of it, and I 

 think the general idea prevails that the common can only be used 

 as pasture land, and the consequence is that all the cows in the 



