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Sd year, dressing as above . . . . 81 00 



3d " do. do ] 00 



4th " do. do 1 00 



5th " do. do. . . . . 1 00 



Cth i; do. do 1 00 



5 years' dressing $5 00 



7th year, trenching to prepare for plashing, 



plough, and horse $0 50 



Three days' work, at 75 cts., throwing up a 



ditch 2 25 



500 stakes, counting labour as above, including 



timber 3 50 



Wattles, and cutting them . . . 2 CO 



One hand three days at plashing, at $1 . 3 00 



Expense of 7th year .... 11 25 



8th year, 1 day's work, trimming and cleaning $0 75 



9th " do. do. do. . 75 



10th " do. do. do. . 75 



llth" do. do. do. . 75 



12th " do. do. do. . 75 



13th" do. do. do. . 75 



Expense of six years .... $4 50 



$29 25 



The foregoing process has produced such a hedge 

 as is exhibited in the drawing, taken from a section 

 of one thirteen years old, now in good condition and 

 improving, becoming more dense every year; and, 

 so far as I am able to form a judgment, I am of the 

 opinion that seventy-five cents annually applied to 

 the trimming will keep it in that form perpetually. 



The calculation on this section of sixty perches 

 will afford data to "apply to any quantity of greater 

 extent ; and tha. annual expense on this, after the 

 seventh year, is uniform, and may be considered to 

 continue so for as long a time as it is regularly at- 

 tended to, and will apply to any extent, at one cent 

 and a quarter per rod or perch of sixteen and a half 

 feet. 



If the writer of these observations had commen- 

 ced hedging with the knowledge now obtained by 

 experience, one half his labour would have been 

 saved. 



