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MARCH 5. When the white-thorn is dead thro* 



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age or improper treatment, or from being over r 

 hung by trees or Hub-wood, it is difficult to get 

 young layer to " take" in the old banjc. There 

 are two things againft it ; the drynefs of the 

 bank ; and its having been already cropped. 



Thefe two objections are in a great meafure 

 removed, with little inconveniency, or addi- 

 tional expence, by throwing the bank entirely 

 > down, about Michaelmas; letting it lie fallow 

 all winter ; tabling the new ditch the latter 

 end of February ; and putting in the layer, 

 and fihifhing the fence, the beginning of 

 March : for, by this means, the mould gets 

 a thorough drenching, and receives the benefit 

 of a winter's expofure to the froft and fnow. 



There are generally roots and flubs in an 

 old ditch-bank fufficient to pay (in this county) 

 for the labour of throwing it down ; and the 

 difference between making a new ditch and 

 vamping up the old one, is not more than two- 

 pence a rod. 



This Alinutearifcs from a tenant's being defirous 

 to remake a ditch, which is loaded with ftub- 

 vvood of forty or fifty years growth ; and which 



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