18 ' On Hedging. 



For the purpose of aiding in the construction of tem- 

 porary fences, plantations of chesnut, pine, cedar mul- 

 berry, the common locust, Sec. ought to be immediately 

 set about in parts of the country where timber is get- 

 ting scarce. A very few acres of such would produce 

 materials sufficient for assisting to enclose many hun- 

 dreds with live hedges. The chesnut, mulberry and lo- 

 cust, would increase on their being cut down at a pro- 

 per age, and their stumps would soon afterwards annu- 

 ally afford a portion of stakes and poles for the above 

 purpose, selecting one here and there, which had attain- 

 ed the size, and letting the residue grow until another 

 period. The young plants of all these species of trees 

 would answer best lo be first raised in a nursery, and 

 after transplanting them there and letting them attain 

 to the age of three years, then to plant them in the ap- 

 propriated field, well cultivated before hand by the 

 plough, and smoothed by the harrow, and the ground 

 also afterwards cleared occasionally from weeds, by 

 instruments of horse labour for a few years. The 

 plants thus cultiyated, would soon become fit for the 

 purpose intended ; not forgetting also to have such plan- 

 tation well secured by a good fence from the depreda- 

 tions of cattle. 



There will seldom be much occasion for any inter- 

 nal defence to protect the young hedges, if matters 

 can be so managed as to have no domestic stock to 

 pasture in the enclosed field for the two first years, and 

 in the third and fourth year if cattle are only kept out 

 during the spring and the beginning of summer, they 

 will not do much injury to the hedges in the after part 



