2 Cae On Hedging. 
meh sn Ne a De ee ee 
For the purpose of aiding in the construction of tem- 
porary fences, plantations of chesnut, pine, cedar mul- 
berry, the common locust, &c. ought to be immediately 
set about in parts of the country where timber is get- 
ting scarce. A very few acres of such would. produce 
materials sufficient for assisting to enclose many hun- 
dreds with live hedges. The chesnut, mulberry and lo- 
cust, would increase on their being cut down at a pro- 
per age, and their stumps would soon afterwards annu- 
ally afford a portion of stakes and poles for the above 
purpose. selecting onc here and there, which had attain- 
ed the size, and letting the residue grow until another 
period. The young plants of all these species of trees 
would answer best :o be first raised ina nursery, and 
after transplanting them there and letting them attain 
_ to the age of three years, then to plant them in the ap- 
propriated field, well cultivated before hand by the 
~plough, and smoothed by the harrow, and the ground 
also afterwards cleared occasionally from weeds, by 
instruments of horse labour for a few years. The 
plants thus cultivated, would soon become fit for the 
purpose intended ; not forgetting also to have such plan- 
tation well secured by a good fence from the depreda- 
tions of cattle. | 
There will seldom be much occasion for any inter- 
nal defence to protect the young hedges, if matters 
can be so managed as to have no domestic stock to 
pasture in the enclosed field for the two first years, and 
in the third and fourth year if cattle are only kept out 
during the spring and the beginning of summer, they 
will not do much injury to the hedges in the after part 
