CHAPTER III 



FENCES 



FENCES are useful for the purpose of affording 

 shelter to trees, farm and garden crops, horses 

 and other farm stock, to keep them from straying, 

 as guards against the depredations of hares and 

 rabbits, for marking boundary lines, and some- 

 times for ornament. 



Any one or all of the above circumstances may 

 be noted when preparing plans for the erection 

 of fences, but it is only necessary here to deal 

 particularly with those which are to be erected 

 in order to serve as shelter to belts of trees, 

 plantations, etc., this being one of the most 

 essential conditions necessary to successful 

 planting in exposed situations. The following 

 will be considered as among the most use- 

 ful, viz. (i) Dry stone dyke; (2) Turf dyke ; 

 (3) Stone and soil ; (4) Spar and brushwood ; 

 (5) Board or paling ; (6) Hedge. 



