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contrivances will, no doubt be invented hereafter. Such 
ideas as have come across my imagination to favour 
this end, shall now be freely communicated, leaving 
others to.add thereto at their leisure. 
METHOD OF RENDERING A YOUNG HEDGE 
IMPERVIOUS TO BLACK CATTLE. 
Our cattle being accustomed to go at large, and used. 
to pushing their way through brakes and thickets, we 
ean only expect to debar them by live fences, through 
sheer strength of the plants which compose the hedge, 
and if they possibly can divide it with the help of their 
horns, some of them will undoubtedly, at times try to 
force themselves through, without much regarding the 
spines of the common haw-thorn, which would do little 
more to a strong steer than to tickle his tough hide, 
but in order to check his progress, and keep him on 
the outside, or keep him in if his owner should choose 
to have him there confined, it will not be difficult nor 
expensive to assist the young hedge in the following 
manner. 
When a hedge is four years old, let the top of it be 
trimmed at the proper season, to about three feet or three 
feet and a half from the ground, a number of neat rails, or © 
seasoned poles, sufficient to run the whole length of the 
hedge being provided, these are to be laid one after 
‘the other, singly along the top, exactly in the middle © 
thereof, their ends being lapped past each other, and 
tied together with a piece of hickory bark, or some such 
cheap and ready ligature, the stubbs of the shoots will 
easily support them there until the new growth secure 
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