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Wire Fence; Oats; Jersey Manure; Corn; Grubs; 

 Fall ploughing, &c. fcfc. 



Belmont, August 3, 1817. 



Sir, 

 This past spring, I enclosed a part of my lawn, for the 

 purpose of tillage, preparatory to laying it down in grass. 

 Forty pannels of the fence, of nine feet each in length, 

 and four and a half in height, are constructed with dead 

 posts, hewn and painted, and wires of sufficient sizes 

 running through them. The number of wires Jive ; the 

 lower two at eight inches, and the others ten inches apart, 

 which I find sufficient to turn all invaders — small hogs 

 excepted ; and it seems equal to this, if the hogs were 

 well yoked, as they ought to be. Each pannel of wire is 

 bound by a vertical one in the middle, with a loop through 

 which every wire passes ; so that the whole oppose a re- 

 sistance conjointly. This is better than any other mode 

 I have seen ; and does not permit horses or horned beasts, 

 with their heads and necks, to separate the wires, and 

 trespass as far as either can reach. It is a little neater 

 than a common fence would require, is amply strong to 

 resist any horse, or other even mischievous assailant, and 

 costs little more than a common five railed cedar fence, 

 of good materials. The plan of wire fences, with trees 

 for posts, I dislike ; as the trees shade and exhaust the 

 borders of fields to a greater amount in value, than all the 

 expense of dead posts and their renewals. 



