On Hedging, 17 



Where a post and rail fence is already erected upon 

 the line, the hedge inside may be planted pretty near 

 it if desirable; and the ground next the railing can be 

 cultivated with the spade or the hoe when the hedge 

 is in place, while the interior half of the hedge course 

 can be cultivated by the plough, as hereafter described. 



Where there is good land altogether without fencing, 

 and where timber for rails cannot conveniently be ob- 

 tained, a fence of wattled brush-wood, such as is com- 

 mon in many parts of the country, if it last for six years, 

 will answer the purpose of a protective fence as well as 

 any other. Where stuff fit for wattling is scarce, if the 

 land be pretty flat, free of stones and easy to dig with the 

 spade, a mound of earth or sod, ox faced with sod, sup- 

 ported behind with earthf and surmounted at the top by 

 an addition of w^attling, will in any of these modes make 

 a sufficient temporary fence for the purpose intended. 

 Fences something similar to these are not uncommon 

 in America, where no hedge is contemplated, and I 

 have often beheld with regret the labour that has been 

 expended upon them, considering their transitory na- 

 ture, and reflecting that had there been a live hedge set 

 behind immediately afterwards, it would in the course 

 of a few years, have become a strong and permanent 

 fence, rising as it where out of the ruins of the former* 

 A post and rail fence of lasting materials, after protect- 

 ing one hedge to sufficient strength, may be removed to 

 defend another, and if it will bear two removals or last 

 eighteen years, it may thus serve to protect three dis- 

 tinct hedges in succession. 



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