2 GO HOW TO GROW GOOD FENCES. 



he wants to keep his beasts in any particular meadow 

 or field. 



We shall shortly discuss these views under the 

 following heads : — 



1. Fences should not be kept up to a greater extent 

 than is required. 



2. A tenant-at-will should not be expected to plant 

 or take charge of fences. 



3. Evils of bad fences. 



1. The curtailment and removal of fences is, as 

 already shown, a matter of great moment, not only as 

 providing more available land for cultivation, but as 

 exposing a greater surface even of the cultivated 

 portions of fields to the influence of light and air. But 

 on any estate where this has been deemed advisable, 

 we have usually seen that as the work has been, as it 

 were, divided amongst the tenants, it has either been 

 done without judgment, or, if performed well, yet 

 by men of different views, as having different require- 

 ments, so that it has resulted in a patchy and anything 

 rather than an uniform improvement. 



We would advise that the landlord or his agent 

 take charge of this matter, with a view to that uni- 

 form improvement which would affect the whole 

 estate. In this case it would be to the interest of 

 the proprietor to make the run of the fences as 

 straight as possible, to plant quicks, to mend gaps, 

 and properly to fence them with rails. Were this 

 the case, we should hardly see gaps filled up with 

 dead materials, only to widen them as time advances 

 by killing more of the living wood, or, what is even 

 worse, left as roadways to tempt the trespasser. In 



