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nOW TO GUOW GOOD FENCES. 



an illustration of the general facts which met our 

 view : — 



j 1 | > " "" | 3 ., « | 6 



Diagram of a Mound and Ditch in Oolite Sands. 



ft. in. 

 A rabbit bole. 



and 5. Grass and weeds wbicb cannot be ploughed 5 



Mound for fence . . ^ . . .- 8 



Bottom of ditch ^ 3 



Field side of ditch 6 



Arable field _. — 



Total _ 22 



Here it will be seen that not only has nearly twenty 

 feet of land been taken up with the fence, but the 

 plan upon which it is made of itself suggests a rabbit- 

 warren, and especially when we say that the soil is of 

 a loose sandy nature, and the ditch has never yet been 

 a conduit for running water, and is therefore per- 

 fectly unnecessary. 



2. The hedge-hog is here only mentioned in the 

 hope of dispelling a popular prejudice with regard to 

 him. He is ruthlessly destroyed as vermin, on the 

 supposition that the hedge screens a traitor who is 

 ever ready to suck eggs or to take a meal from the 

 cow's udder. Now, as regards the first charge, one 

 would have thought that, from the pertinacity 

 displayed by those who bring it in destroying 

 birds' eggs and birds of every kind, they would have 



