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maintain a great stock. To provide all necessary buildings for 

 shelter in the winter, and for the purposes of making mountains of 

 dung, which the large produce of straw will enable the occupier to 

 do. If sheep be kept, let the choice be of wedders, or wethers, 

 (a breeding flock on such exposed situations is hazardous) and let 

 them be folded every day in the year. 



Ey these means, lands of this description may be carried on in a 

 progressive state of improvement ; and if the present price of the 

 different articles of produce be not greatly reduced, neither the 

 proprietor, nor the tenant, will have any reason to complain. 



Let us now proceed to a description of the fences, buildings, re- 

 servoirs or pools, limekilns, roads, and all other the needful ap- 

 pendages to such undertakings. 



There are various modes of fencing, and each has its advocates, 

 but the two principal are walls and quick set hedges. 



WALL FENCE. 



In most instances, the outside bounds are a wall fence, five feet 

 six inches high, two feet and a half wide at bottom, and fifteen 

 inches at the top, which is covered with a turf of six inches put on 

 in the form of an arch, making together an heighth of six feet. 

 This wall is partly dry, and partly cemented with mortar, or what 

 is commonly called a list wall. In some instances where a flat bed 

 of stone can be procured, it is made without cement, and if well 

 built, such a wall is very durable. When the ground is level, the 

 foundation of the wall is laid on the turf, and this is to be preferred, 

 as it will not be so apt to sink as when a trench is dug. The ex- 

 pence of a list wall may be thus calculated per rope of twenty feet 

 ninning length. 



£. s. d. 

 To quarringor digging 8 load of stone^ (25cwt. each) at3d. o 2 o 

 To hailing the same supposing the distance § a mile, at 6d. o 4 o 

 To building per rope, ( 20 feet) . . . . at 3s. 6d. 036 



To 3 bushels of lime at 3d. o o 9 



To covering with turf (if done very well) .... 003 



£• o 10 6 



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