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or bank, not meriting the appellation ; and 

 in others, a ragged hedge, or broken wall, 

 with, perhaps, one yard up, and two down. 

 Can this be called rational management ? 

 Is it not the height of carelessness, nay, even 

 a cruelty, to abandon trees, which, otherwise, 

 might soon become useful, not only to the 

 proprietor, but to the community, to the ra- 

 vages of cattle r 



As, in different parts of the country, the 

 same method of Fencing might, in many in- 

 stances, be found inconvenient ; and as dif- 

 ferent modes may be found suitable in vari- 

 ous circumstances ; I propose three different 

 methods of Fencing; with the manner of 

 repairing or reclaiming old hedges, so as to 

 make them become, and continue to be, 

 good fences. 



I would wish to speak, in a particular 

 manner, to the merits of the first * method ; 

 viz. quick-hedge and ditch, with top-dyke. 

 I certainly esteem it the best, the most speedy 

 and effectual ; and that which, perhaps, is 



* Invented by the late Sir George Suttie, of Bal- 

 gone, in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and generally 

 termed, " Sir George Siittie's Fence." 



