On Hedging. 



contrivances will, no doubt be invented hereafter. Such 

 ideas as have come across my imagiiiation to favour 

 this end, shall now be freely communicated, leaving 

 others to add thereto at their leisure. 



METHOD OF RENDERING A YOUNG HEDGE 

 IMPERVIOUS TO BLACK CATTLE. 



Our cattle being accustomed to go at large, and used 

 to pushing their way through brakes and thickets, we 

 can only expect to debar them by live fences, through 

 sheer strength of the plants which compose the hedge, 

 and if they possibly can divide it with the help of their 

 horns, some of them will undoubtedly, at times try to 

 force themselves through, without much regarding the 

 spines of the common haw-thorn, which would do little 

 more to a strong steer than to tickle his tough hide, 

 but in order to check his progress, and keep him on 

 the outside, or keep him in if his owner should choose 

 to have him there confined, it will not be difficult nor 

 expensive to assist the young hedge in the following 

 manner. 



When a hedge is four years old, let the top of it be 

 trimmed at the proper season, to about three feet or three 

 feet and a half from the ground, a number of neat rails, or 

 seasoned poles, sufficient to run the whole length of the 

 hedge being provided, these are to be laid one after 

 the other, singly along the top, exactly in the middle 

 thereof, their ends being lapped past each other, and 

 tied together with a piece of hickory bark, or some such 

 cheap and ready ligature, the stubbs of the shoots will 

 easily support them there until the new growth secure 



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