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NOVEMBER, 



THRESHING. 



As soon as the cattle are taken into the yards, 

 they are to be fed with straw, the threshers must be 

 set to work, to supply the lean beasts, and they must 

 be kept regularly to it. 



FENCES. 



This is the first month for hedging and ditching : 

 October is too soon. After you have once brought 

 your fences into good order, which should always be 

 effected within the three first years of a lease, the 

 best way is, to divide the length of hedging into 12 

 parts, and to make it a rule to do one twelfth every 

 year afterwards ; by which means the whole will al- 

 ways be kept in good order. The best method for all 

 old hedges, consisting not wholly of white thorn, is 

 the plashing, in which so much of the hedge is made 

 of live wood, that it holds up and lasts far longer 

 than hedges made all of dead wood, which is the 

 practice of some countries ; they are rotten, broken 

 down, and gone, before the quick wood gets up to 

 form a fence ; whereas, in the plashing method, by 

 leaving hs many hedge-stakes alive as possible, and by- 

 laying down much growing wood, the hedge is con- 

 stantly impenetrable. 



BORDERS. 



The borders in many counties, where the inclo- 

 sures are small, take up a tenth or a twelfth part of 



whole 



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