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Of the Fences used in Agriculture. 



SVe?. Fences, next to implements, machinery, and suitable buildings, are in most 

 situations '* indispensable to the profitable management of arable land. They are not 

 only necessary to protect the crops from the live stock of the farm, but often contribute, 

 in no small degree, by the shelter they afford, to augment and improve the produce 

 Itself. On all arable farms, on which cattle and sheep are pastured, the ease, security, 

 and comfort, which good fences give, both to the owner and the animals themselves, are 



