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DRY WALL. 



To quarring as before 020 



To hailing ditto 040 



To building , at 2s o 2 o 



To turfing ..,.003 



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When stones can be got within a wheeling distance, or about 

 sixty or seventy yards, the cost will be reduced about two Shillings 

 per rope, and if the wall be wholly made with cement, it will be 

 enhanced about 2s. 6d per tope. 



QUICKSET HEDGES. 



These hedges, if rightly managed and attended to, whilst young, 

 are in themselves, great advantage and profit ; they afford good 

 shelter for the cattle, and they furnish fuel and writh for the ne- 

 cessary purposes of the occupier. 



The first thing to be done, is to mark out the course of the 

 ditch. The dimensions of the bank on which the quick sets are 

 planted is generally seven feet at the bottom, three and a half feet 

 at the top, and two feet high. On each side is a ditch 3 feet wide, 

 and 2 feet deep ; the sides being made sloping, and the bottom not 

 wider than six inches ; this is to prevent the cattle from walking in 

 the ditch, and cropping the young shoots- In making t^e Hitrh, 

 the men should be particularly careful, not to throw any bad earth 

 from the bottom of the ditches into the centre of the bank. If this 

 be done, the growth of the quick will be greatly retarded. The 

 making this bank will cost nine pence per rope, (twenty feet). 



Let the sets be taken from a nursery formed on a good soil ; let 

 them be straight in their growth, having been once transplanted 

 from the seed bed, and four or five years old. The shoots should 

 also be smooth on the bark, and well rooted. These sets are 

 worth about one shilling per hundred. 



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