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has need for no other provision for winter but 

 about a three hundredth part of his fine grass 

 turned into hay, which will keep his necessary 

 horses and cows ; besides which he has nothing 

 that eats but such pigs as live upon the waste, 

 and a couple of fine young deer (which would 

 weigh, they say when full grown, 200 Ibs. dead 

 weight), that his youngest son is rearing up as 

 pets. 



910. I very much admire Mr. Birkbeck's 

 mode of fencing. He makes a ditch 4 feet 

 wide at top, sloping to 1 foot wide at bottom, 

 and 4 feet deep. With the earth that comes out 

 of the ditch he makes a bank on one side, 

 which is turfed towards the ditch. Then a 

 long pole is put up from the bottom of the 

 ditch to 2 feet above the bank ; this is crossed 

 by a short pole from the other side, and then a 

 rail is laid along between the forks. The banks 

 were growing beautifully, and looked altogether 

 very neat as well as formidable ; though a live 

 hedge (which he intends to have) instead of dead 

 poles and rails, upon top, would make the fence 

 far more effectual as well as handsomer. I am 

 always surprized, until I reflect how universally 

 and to what a degree, farming is neglected in 

 this country, that this mode of fencing is not 

 adopted in cultivated districts, especially where 

 the land is wet, or lies low ; for, there it answer* 



