NOVEMBER. 575 



recommended as a plan well calculated to save ex 

 pence. 



PLANT FRUIT-TREES. 



This is the proper season for planting fruit- 

 trees. A good orchard is a valuable article upon 

 every farm, as they well understand in Kent. The 

 mode of performing it, and the whole management, 

 belongs to the Calendars for gardeners rather thau 

 for farmers. 



FISH-PONDS. 



This is a proper season for making fish-ponds. 

 The object, in certain situations, may be advan- 

 tageous to a farmer who occupies his own land : it i 

 in all an agreeable, and a very comfortable assistance 

 to house-keeping. The best means of doing it is by 

 a head or bank across a gentle vale, with a puddled 

 wall in it, and a sluice at the lowest part. If the 

 .declivity of the land be gentle, a head of six or 

 eight feet depth, will in some cases float many acres 

 with water. The expence, including every thing, 

 may be reckoned at from Is. to is. 6d. per cubical 

 yard of the head. The late Mr. Bakewell thought, 

 that water well managed would pay better than any 

 grass : it must, of course, depend on the. price a.nd 

 demand for fish. 



Nothing can be done in this work without a 

 spirit-level. The first station should be from side 



to side across the vale where the head is to be ; 



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and having fixed two stakes, one on each side on 



the 



