FENCES. [March* 



MAKING DITCH FENCES, AND SOWING WHIN 

 SEEDS ON THEIR TOPS. 



In fituations where none of the foregoing kinds 

 of Fences can be eafily procured, or where they 

 are not defired, fences of confiderable effect can 

 be formed by a ditch, with a hedge of Whins on 

 the top. 



The ditch for this purpofe fhould never be lefs 

 than a fix-feet ditch, and is to be formed after the 

 manner recommended for ditching for Thorn 

 Hedges in January ; which fee. This is now a 

 fit time for fowing the whin feeds, which is done 

 by drawing a drill, with the corner of a hoe, a- 

 long the top of the ridge of earth thrown from 

 the ditch, as if for fowing fpinage, or about an 

 inch deep. The feeds are to be dropped in at one 

 half inch apart, and covered, by drawing on the 

 earth by the foot, or a garden rake. 



In dividing lands of little value, two five feet 

 ditches, at fuch a diftance from each other as will 

 allow the earth thrown out in forming them to 

 make a pretty fteep ridge, and whin- feeds fown on 

 the top as above directed, will be found a cheap 

 and often an effectual fence, while the ditch will 

 prove a good drain. 



APRIL. 



