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find himfelf involved in ruinous 

 expences. 



V. There are many objections to fuch 

 farms as are fenced with ditches alone. 

 They muft be wet ones, or cattle will not 

 be kept in by them ; and wet ditches are 

 never found but in wet foils, which moft 

 require draining; and confequently dry 

 ditches, that is, fuch as the water runs 

 freely out of. It is a moft pernicious thing 

 in clays to be forced to keep the ditches 

 half full of water, for the fake of making 

 fences of them : For which reafon it is 

 always advifeable, if the water can be car- 

 ried off, to make banks to the ditches, and 

 plant them, converting" the wet ditches 

 into fuch fences as are ufed in countries 

 fenced by hedges and ditches. This will 

 be a great expence, but eafily reduced to 

 exact calculation. 



VI. There are not many farms enclofed 

 with pales, but fome I have feen. When 

 fuch are to be hired, the farmer fhould be 

 very attentive to their ftate; for, if he is to 

 keep them in repair, the expence will be 

 immenfe, unlefs he finds them in a per- 

 fect condition j the pofts and rails all 



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