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plaming ; but, in that way, a gap is very 

 poorly remedied, fmce the only means of 

 flopping them is the bending down large 

 flicks acrofs the open fpot ; which, if they 

 happen to He fallows, willows, hafel, or 

 any thing but ftrong bufhes, have the ef- 

 fect of a rail, but not of pales ; fo that you 

 often fee gaps with rails, that grow acrofs 

 them, fufficient to flop horfes, ' cows, &c. 

 but which are no fence againft fheep and 

 hogs ; and a gap made in fuch hedges, foon 

 after they are plafhed, is almoll irremedi- 

 able. 



A farm that is fenced in this manner 

 may fatisfy the tenants that have not been 

 ufed to any thing better ; but one who 

 moves from a country in which ditches are- 

 deep and wide, will never be fatisfied with 

 fuch imperfect fences. The confequence of 

 which is the great expence of digging 

 ditches over the whole farm ; a matter 

 reduced to exact calculation prefently; fa 

 that a farmer may know his expence at 

 once : but never let him hire fuch a farm 

 without remembering this article. My 

 prefent farm in Hertford/hire had not a 



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