110 PREMIUMS OFFERED. 



seed, and at least twenty rods in length, well trimmed 

 and filled, a premium of twenty dollars. 



For the next best, under the same conditions, a pre- 

 mium of ten dollars. 



REMARKS. 



In many parts of the county, stones are found in 

 sufficient quantities to fence the land ; and the laying 

 them up in fences is the best way of disposing of 

 them on their removal from the soil. But there are 

 other parts, where stones are not obtained without 

 much expense, where wood for fencing is scarce, 

 where live fences might be introduced with great ad- 

 vantage. 



Prejudices exist against the American Maple 

 Thorn and the Enghsh Hawthorn, from their liabihty 

 to be injured and destroyed by the borer, and to suf- 

 fer greatly from the ravages of field mice. A hedge 

 of the latter plant, however, is still to be seen on the 

 farm late Dr. Shurtleft^'s, on the Salem Turnpike, near 

 Chelsea Bridge, which furnishes a handsome, healthy 

 and impregnable fence. The triple thorned Acacia, 

 though strongly objected to by some persons, has 

 been cultivated for this purpose with considerable 

 success by Judge Buel, at Albany. But we have two 

 plants among us, whose value and fitness in this mat- 

 ter have been tested, which are accessible, and subject 

 to no disease or depredation. 



The first is the Buckthorn, easily raised from the 

 seed, of which a beautiful, durable, and sufficient 

 fence, may be seen on the farm of E. H. Derby, 

 Esq., in South Salem. 



The other is the common red cedar, a savin, 

 which abounds among us, and which is considerably 

 used for fencing in some parts of Virginia and Penn- 

 sylvania. A hedge of this plant, neatly trimmed and 

 impregnable by cattle, encloses the garden at Mount 

 Vernon ; and at seven years from the seed was a 



