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being annually trimmed as usual, in two years the 

 rails will be found enclosed in the very center of it, so 

 that any animal of a large size that may attempt to push 

 its way through, will find it impracticable to divide the 

 hedge.'' 



Method for excluding Hogs, 



'' When the old protective fence seems to be on the 

 decline, . while the hedge has not yet attained sufficient 

 strength or closeness to keep out pigs or hogs, that 

 are permitted to go at large without yokes, the hedge 

 may be strengthened to resist them by driving a short 

 stake about two feet long in the vacancy betwixt each 

 two of the plants ; if these stakes are sufficiently dura- 

 ble to continue firm for two or tliree years^ the hedge 

 will probably at that period, be strong enough itself to 

 keep hogs out." 



''Another method to effect this purpose, maybe com- 

 menced when the hedge has completed its second 

 year, or when the stems of the plants nearest the 

 •ground, have attained the size of a person's thumb, 

 then just before the bud begins to open in the spring, 

 let the whole hedge be cut off by a saw, to within an 

 inch and a half of the surface ; the cultivation being 

 continued as usual, the shoots that will arise from these 

 stubbs w411 run up to four, five, or six feet the first 

 season, and will be so numerous and full of thorns, 

 that the hedge will in a few years be completely closed 

 at the bottom ; the trimming being annually attended 

 to as before directed under that article. But it is to be 

 observed that these strong shoots are at first easily dis- 

 jointed from the stocks, and therefore cattle of every 



