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 fill vegetable, for the feeding of milch 

 cows : He is determined to continue the 

 Cultivation of them for that purpofe, hav- 

 ing found them fo peculiarly convenient^ 

 that a lofs of cabbages would, in a great 

 meafure, be a lofs of the winter's milk. 



This Gentleman is alfo particularly 

 attentive to the management of his 

 fences : His favourite hedge is the hollyj 

 he fows the feed in beds, and trans- 

 plants them into rows for hedges ; I inea- 

 fured fome, that grew upon a moift foil, 

 fix feet high, in fix years growth : It is 

 indubitably the firfl of all fences, grows 

 very thick, clofe to the ground, and is of 

 fo ftubborn, prickly a nature, as to be im-r 

 penetrable by man or beafl. 



White thorns he tranfplants at fix feet 

 high, and finds them to anfwer very well. 



Upon the whole, Mr. Dickfoji has pro- 

 ved, by the noble and fpirited manner 

 in which he has not only increafed the 

 number of people on his eflate, but 

 advanced their interefls; and by the 

 fenfible attention he has given to agri- 

 culture, that the nation at large, as 

 >vdl as this neighbourhood in particular, 



are 



