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alone would be fufficient to render it a rnoft 

 pernicious bargain. The only calculation 

 the cafe admits, is to plan a complete new 

 inclofure of the whole farm, with ditches 

 and banks, well planted with thorns, and 

 fecured at top by dead hedges to defend the 

 young quick. He may prefently calculate 

 what the expence will be, and confequently 

 know what rent the farm under that cir- 

 cumftance is worth : but he will find, it 

 will fo reduce the fum demanded, that no 

 hope of agreement will remain. Leave 

 fuch farms to the llovenly tenants that have 

 been ufed to them, and to the indolent 

 landlords, who can bear to poflefs fuch 

 wretched eftates. 



III. Farms that are fenced with live 

 hedges and ditches are fortunately circum^ 

 ftanced in being, in this refpect, in per- 

 fection. The hedge and the ditch are a 

 mutual defence to each other ; and, when 

 good of a fort, are impenetrable to man or 

 beaft. 



When a farmer views a farm of this 

 kind, he fhould principally attend to the 

 hedges ; to obferve that there is plenty of 

 green wood in them, and not many gaps 



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