104 On Live Fences. 



Except as to the hedge round the stable yard, it 

 must be recollected, that on one side of this hedge, there 

 is a dead fence, on the other, I have annually manured 

 a space of nine feet wide, and cultivated it in peas, 

 working close to the live hedge; and perceiving the 

 vast benefit of it, I last yeai' commenced the following 

 mode of mrinuring the hedges at a distance from the 

 fai'm yards, and have applied it to two thirds of the 

 w^hole. The intire materials of the old dead fences which 

 require renewal, are nicely patched on both sides of the 

 live one, and this decaying wood and brush is covered 

 with good mould collected from the bottom of the ditch. 

 At the same time a new dead fence is made, expected 

 to last until the live fence becomes sufficient. The dead 

 fences are made of stakes and Cedar boughs, closely 

 wattled. 



The live fence around the stable yard, having been 

 annually topt higher, as its use is to confine horses, is 

 now about fi^-e feet high, and two wide ; and is a good 

 hedge, well filled up from bottom to top, two or three 

 gaps excepted, made by the stable boys. 



The rest are in a state of progress, graduated by their 

 ages, some being nearly sufficient to confine horses, 

 and others but lately planted. The excessive drought 

 of the last year, checked their growth very much, but 

 did not kill a single plant that I observed. Indeed I do 

 not recollect to have seen one dead, after it had lived 

 a year. 



The mode of planting is extremely simple, rapid and 

 certain. The cedar is taken up with a spade, in a sod, 

 nearly in the form of a cube; tvro of its sides receiving 

 dimension from the l^readth of the spade, and the other 



