HOW TO GROW GOOD FENCES. 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



ON THE NATURE OF FENCES. 



Fences, as boundary lines to estates and as a means 

 of dividing and separating land into convenient parts 

 or fields, are worthy of greater attention than we 

 think is paid to them either by the landlord or the 

 tenant. 



But it is perhaps the fact that the landlord on the 

 one hand too often looks upon them as mere bound- 

 aries, or deems that he is only personally concerned 

 in them to that extent ; while the tenant on the other 

 hand — and especially if his holding be precarious — can 

 hardly be expected to take that care and defray those 

 expenses which growing good fences and keeping 

 them in order must necessarily entail. In treating 

 this subject, then, we shall endeavour to show that 

 the study of how to grow good fences, by putting the 

 matter upon correct principles, will tend to the good 

 of all parties concerned. 



Fences are of two well-known types : Dead fences, 

 such as the natural boundaries of streams, artificial 

 ditches, raised mounds, walls, railings, &c. ; Live 



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