| aa On Hedging. 
se RANE RIN OLA MER . 
TEMPORARY FENCES. 
As the method of plain hedging will always require 
some protective defence, to guard the young quicks 
from cattle for several years after they are planted, it 
will be necessary to say something here concerning 
these. Where a field, intended to be inclosed by a 
hedge, is already furnished with a fence of rails, all that 
is then necessary is to have this temporary fence placed 
at a proper distance from the line where the hedge is 
intended to be set; this distance ought to leave a space 
‘so wide as to permit a breadth of five feet along the 
side of the hedge to be cultivated by the plough, whe- 
ther with one or two horses the nature of the soil must 
determine. ‘A hedge on a tolerably good soil, may al- 
ways be calculated to extend its lateral twigs three or 
four feet on each side when full grown; it will there- 
fore be proper in some cases, to plant at that distance 
from the bounden line of a public road, and rather 
some feet more distant from the line of a neighbour, 
who is not obliged to suffer another person’s hedge to 
encroach upon his property, when he is not willing to 
receive a benefit from it. There must, also, be room 
left in this case to walk in trimming the hedge. Any 
person of common understanding will want no more 
than this hint to have such matters rightly regulated 
before hand, and sometimes, by permission, to have the 
temporary fence set a little out on the road side, or by 
consent, sometimes a few feet on the adjoining field of 
an obliging neighbour. | 
