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■©r gTavelly bottom, if built with good stones, a wall will 

 stand very well without digging a trench. On a clay 

 or miry soil, the foundation should be laid in a trench, 

 nearij^ as low as the earth freezes. The best way is to 

 dig a trench to the depth of about eighteen inches ; into 

 this throw all the small and bad shaped stones, until the 

 trench is tilled ; then on the top of these build the wail, 

 in a mason-like manner, to the height of about five feet, 

 and threw the earth dug out of the trench up against 

 the wall en each side. 



Hedges^ are to be recommended where timber and 

 Btone are very scarce. Mr. Qr.incy of Massachusetts, 

 has a hedge 255 rods long, made of American Hedge 

 Thorn, planted five inches apart. The whole cost for 

 six years, (when it was a sufficient fence,) including the 

 plants procured from the district of Columbia, was ^1G7 

 (about 66 cents a rod.) He thinks, where the labour 

 is performed by the farmer himself, a complete hedge 

 may be formed in six or seven years, for less than fiiiy 

 cents a rod. For his method of management, see Dean's 

 New England Farmer, 3d edition. See also Cobbetfs 

 American Gardener. 



It is supposed that the New-England Cockspur thors 

 is equally as good as that used by Mr. Quiacy. 



IMPLEMENTS. 



The present period of low prices of products, and the 

 necessity of economy, renders it expedient to enquire 

 whether the labour of conducting our farms may not be 

 abridged by the more general introduction of what are 

 called labour-saving machines. 



Mr. Burgess, a noted agriculturist of this state, ob- 

 serves, that our ploughs are far from the best ; our 

 harrows quite inditferent : rollers, scarifiers, drills, and 

 threshing machines, scarcely used. He calculates that 

 Wood's New-York cast-iron plough, can be moved with 

 a power, one quarter less, and that it will then do one 

 quarter more work than any other plough in use in the 

 state. One hundred and twenty acres were ploughed 

 .by four of these ploughs in one season ) and the wliole 



