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fingle ditch over the whole, and I am not? 

 t work in digging .them to every hedge. 



For thefe reafons, the fences of fuch 

 countries, however good of their fort, yet 

 require a great and immediate expence. 



But if even fuch fences are much out of 

 repair, the new tenant will have an addi- 

 tional expence in bringing them into good 

 order. Perhaps he will find many of them 

 to new-plant, a number of confiderable 

 gaps in the reft to fupply with thorns, and 

 others fo fhrubby, and ftinted in their 

 growth, that many loads of bufhes will be 

 wanted to form any hedge at all. All thefe 

 points .muft be well attended to, and re- 

 duced to calculation; which, by a man 

 that is ufed to bufmefs, is done prefently, 

 find with little trouble. 



II. Some farms I have feen that are 

 fenced with dead hedges only, without 

 any part of them living ; dead bumes in- 

 terlaced among flakes drove into the 

 ground: I would moft heartily advife 

 every farmer, that has an opportunity of 

 hiring a farm fo fenced, to avoid it as Jic 

 would certain ruin. Though all other 

 pircumftances were agreeable to him, this 



alone 



