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They were not highly rimmed ; but turncps 102. 

 being almoft done, and grafs backward, the BULLOCKS 

 proprietor of them judged wifely in felling off TURNEPS. 

 the beft of them now, that he may be able to 

 fmifh the emainder the more highly with 

 grafs. 



103. 

 MAY <. The late beating rains have RAISING 



J HEDGES. 



warned down the face of many hundred rods of 

 ditching. New-raifed ditches have fuffered 

 mod; but where the face looked to the north- 

 eaft, ditches which have been made even two 

 or three years, have fuffered confiderably. 



Where new ditches have been raifed this 

 fpring, in the Norfolk manner ; namely, very 

 upright, with the layer planted almoft at the 

 top of the bank much mifchief is done ; for 

 not only the face, but the layer alfo, lies by 

 the heels in the <f holl," for many rods in a 

 place : and this, it feems, is a misfortune not 

 uncommon in Norfolk ; yet (till the farmers 

 perfift in raifing their live fences in this moft 

 injudicious manner. 



I have the fatisfacYion to fee thofe ditches 



which I railed laft year, with an offset, and 



with the layer planted on the firft fpit, 



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