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The foil muft become firm before the 

 Hedge can be ufed with propriety. After the 

 furface has been polimed by this, it is finally 

 looked over, with the rake- efpecially round 

 the borders^ where the fledge may have left 

 it unfmimed. 



Hand-moulding is done entirely by wo- 

 men. Wages 6d. a day. 



This may be a proper place to mention 

 an opinion which I have met with in this 

 Diflrid: refpecting MOLES. 



A man whofe examinations are feldom fu- 

 pcrficial, is clearly of opinion, that moles are 

 ufeful to the farmer. And under this idea 

 he has not had a mole killed upon his farm 

 during the laft twenty years ! He believes 

 them to be ufeful in draining the foil ; in 

 communicating air to the roots of plants ; in 



railing 



ferred from paflure grounds to after-grafs,) a practice 

 which ought to be univerfally adopted. The furface 

 is then generally open enough to admit the dung which 

 is fpread upon it j whereas, in fpring, being fpread 

 Over a furface fatu rated with water, it is probable that 

 much of it is waflied away with heavy rains, or diffi- 

 pated by froits. Moulding in early autumn is fimilar 

 in its eftedts to the practice of manuring grafsland at 

 that feafon. 



