16 On Hedgbig, 



TEMPORARY FENCES. 



As the method of plain hedging will always require 

 some protective defence, to guard the young quicks 

 from cattle for several years after they are planted, it 

 will be necessary to say something here concerning 

 these. Where a field, intended to be inclosed by a 

 hedge, is already furnished with a fence of rails, dl that 

 is then necessary is to have this temporary fence placed 

 at a proper distance from the line where the hedge is 

 intended to be set; this distance ought to leave a space 

 so wide as to permit a breadth of five feet along the 

 side of the hedge to be cultivated by the plough, whe- 

 ther with one or two horses the nature of the soil must 

 determine. A hedge on a tolerably good soil, may al- 

 ways be calculated to extend its lateral twigs three or 

 four feet on each side w^hen full grown ; it will there- 

 fore be proper in some cases, to plant at that distance 

 from the bounden line of a public road, and rather 

 some feet more distant from the line of a neighbour, 

 who is not obliged to suffer another \ person's hedge to 

 encroach upon his property, when he is not willing to 

 receive a benefit from it. There must, also, be room 

 left in this case to walk in trimming the hedge. Any 

 person of common understanding will want no more 

 than this hint to have such matters rightly regulated 

 before hand, and sometimes, by permission, to have the 

 temporary fence set a little out on the road side, or by 

 consent, sometimes a few feet on the adjoining field of 

 an obliging neighbour. 



