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Making the bank 009 



Quick sets 80 in a rope 009 



Planting and dunging 002 



2 Dead hedges 025 



(X. B. One waggon-load of writh will cost 17s. 

 6d. and make about 15 rope of single hedge.) 



Making two dead fences 005 



046 



Weeding plants for three years 003 



2 Additional dead hedges 0210 



077 



-V. B. The old wood will pay for sundry repairs of the hedges 

 injured by sportsmen, &c. 



Having now stated the different expence of a mortar, and list 

 tvall, a dry -vail, and also of raising a bank, and planting quick. 

 It may not be amiss to enumerate the comparative advantages and 

 disadvantages. 



A wall is certainly the best fence for a given number of years. 

 It covers less ground, it does less injury to the crops than hedges. 

 If part by accident fall, it is easily repaired, cattle are kept more 

 secure, sportmen are excluded. These are the principal advan- 

 tages, which in a great degree compensate for the want of shelter 

 and durability, and in most instances where stone can easily be got, 

 and I think in all cases, where land is poor and exposed to violent 

 winds, it is no ineligible fence. 



On the other hand, quickset hedges are beautiful to the eye, and 

 if the climate, quality, and depth of soil, be such as to throw out 

 a vigorous shoot, and minute attention be paid to them in their in- 

 fancy, they are less expensive, and at the end of fourteen or fifteen 

 years, will yield a sufficient produce when cut down, and plashed 

 to pay all the expences incurred by the first making, and this cutting 

 may be repeated afterwards every twelve or fourteen years without in- 

 jury to the stocks : and here let me remind the farmer, that the proper 

 time to cut and plash his hedges, is when the ground is to be ploughed, 

 or if it be pasture, when the crop is to stand for hay ; for cat- 

 tle are very fond of the young branches, and by cropping them in 

 the summer will greatly injure the shoots. 



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