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hedges, in wet lands. Perhaps the shrubby kind, that grows 

 along the banks ot many of our streams, would be very 

 good for this purpose. 



For making the hedge, either in the bank of a ditch, or 

 otherwise, stakes of a proper length are cut and set a good 

 depth in the ground, about a foot apart, and they will take 

 root and grow; while new twigs, sprouting out from every 

 part, soon forms them into a thick bushy hedge. This, 

 when sufficiently grown, is to be treated as other hedges. 

 See HEDGES, 



In Greatbruum, some of the larger sorts of this tree are 

 also "raised for building timber. In this case, says Mr. Miller, 

 they are planted in rows, and stand six feet apart each way, 

 and are trirned up the requisite height. When they become 

 too thick, every other tree, in each row, is taken away. 

 They may also be planted along the banks of ditches, for 

 this purpose. The sets are seven or eight feet long when 

 planted. The same Author observes, that every kind of 

 willow is easily raised from sets or cuiings, which readily 

 take root, either in the Spring or Fail. 



WINDGALLS. These are flatulent swellings en the 

 bodies ot Horses; but most commonly they are sealed on 

 both sides of the back sinew, above the fetlocks ot this ani- 

 mal : Sometimes they are in the joints and tendons. They 

 are generally filled with air and thin watery matter. Where 

 they appear in the interstices of the large muscles, which 

 then appear blown up like bladders, they are principally 

 filled with air, and may be safely opened and treated as a 

 common wound. 



When they first appear, they are usually cured with re- 

 stringents, and bandages drawn very tiuh'ly round them; 

 for which purpose, let the swelling be bathed twice a day 

 with vinegar, or verjuice, or fomented with a decoction of 

 oak-bark, pomegranate, and allum, boiled in verjuice, and 

 let the bandage which binds the windgali be soaked in the 

 same. 



If this should fail, the swelling may be drawn off by blis- 

 tering, and applying the blistering ointment, repeating it at 

 times, till the humor is all drawn off. Some, however, cut 

 open these swellings, wherever they be situated, and treat 

 them as a wound. But, perhaps, where they are in the 

 joints, the blistering is the safer remedy, as the joints may 

 be stiffened by imprudent management. 



WIND-MACHINERY. The saving of labor by the use 

 of the winds, seems to have been but little attended to; and 

 yet it is believed that great advantages might be derived to 

 the Farmer, from this source. 



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