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But may not these too modes be so combined, as to reap the 

 advantage of both, that is, by making both a wall and hedge ? 

 to this there can be no objection, but the expence. 



A dry stone-wall, \\ feet high, with six inches turf on the top, 

 may be built on a similar calculation with the foregoing, for six 

 shillings per rope, and a low bank may be rose under it, on which 

 quick may be planted. The growth encouraged by shelter and 

 warmth will be rapid, and in four or five years time, the wall 

 may be taken away, and the stones converted into lime, or used 

 on the public roads, or for any other purpose. If this fence be 

 made at the time when the land is converted into tillage, one dead 

 fence will be sufficient, and that need not be an expensive one. 



The dissursment iaiU be as follows : 



Building 4_f feet of wall, stones and hailing included 060 



Turfing 002 



Making bank and planting quick 004 



Sets o o S 



1 Dead fence on the inside .012 



Weeding 002 



086 



From which deduct the value of the stones at 3d. reiO 



, j r° * 6 



curt load J 



070 



This I think a more eligible mode of fencing than either of the 

 preceding, but still there is another method which I prefer to all 

 others in situations, such as that on which we are now treating. 



This is making a bank four feet high, and planting on it full 

 grown sloe or black thorn, setting them very thick, and cutting off 

 the top to the height of three feet. The principal objection that 

 can be started to this plant is the running of its roots, which are 

 said to obstruct the plough, but I can declare from long experience, 

 that in banks, such as I describe, accompanied with ditches, i\ 

 feet deep, no such inconvenience has occurred. In most countries 

 great quantities of this black thorn might be found in coppices, 

 borders of fields, commons, &c. and the owners will be obliged 



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