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uable and favorite trees, remorselessly tearing them limb and 

 branch, and all your labor is lost. 



ENCLOSUEES. 



A cheap fence can be made of posts and rails irx this way: 

 Set your posts eight to ten feet apart — they may be six feet 

 above the ground. Mortise, or bore holes with a two inch 

 augur for three rails, divided properly, so that the fence will 

 be five feet high, and let them in the posts. The holes in the 

 ground, for the posts, should be about eighteen inches deep. 

 This fence will be fully sufficient to keep out cattle, and any 

 coarse workman can make it. 



Another simple and cheap fence for this purpose is made as 

 follows: A stake and cap line is made the usual way. The 

 stakes well driven, or put in ihe ground. Have the usual 

 crook for a stake and cap fence. Prepare short stakes; drive 

 them in the ground between the long stakes — that is, between 

 each pair of long stakes — so that, when well driven, about two 

 and a half feet of them will remain above ground. Now place 

 three or four courses of rails between each pair of long stakes 

 with their ends resting on the top of the short stakes. This 

 will make a substantial fence four and a half or five feet high, 

 sufficient to keep out all large stock, and suitable for any 

 orchard and for other purposes. 



MANURES. 



When the soil around peach trees requires manure, which 

 it very often does, there is nothing better than wood aches, 

 leached or unleached, and all vegetable manures are proper 

 for this fruit. 



Well-rotted chip manure and ashes, or, a light dressing of 

 lime with the litter, is very beneficial. Muck or ditch mud, 

 when a Winter's frost has ameliorated it, mixed with animal 

 or vegetable manures, is an excellent compost, especially if 

 the soil be light, sandy, or slaty. Soap-suds, chamber-slops, 

 &c., are good; and their action, like that of ashes, is imme- 

 diate and certain. 



