BUILDING DYKES, &C. 



BUILDING DYKES. 



Contiuue the building of (tone and lime fences 5 

 top dikes, Galloway dikes, and dryflone walls* 

 Make funk fences, and build funk-fence walls. 

 Be careful to ufe large (tones in building funk- 

 fence walls ; and the more efpecially if the cast 

 be deep. See that proper apertures be left at nu- 

 merous places for the efcape of the moiflure, 

 which will infallibly exude from the earth on the 

 back fide of the wall. For want of attending to 

 thefe precautions, many roods of funk-fence wall 

 are fometimes overturned foon after being built. In 

 all cafes where there is occafion to make up the earth 

 at the back of funk-fence walls, the wall at fuch 

 places muft be made much ftronger than when 

 they are merely employed in facing up the folid 

 earth ; becaufe travelled earth, when it becomes 

 moid, fwells to a greater degree than folid earth, 

 and therefore requires a very ftrong wall to with- 

 Itand its force. 



CLEANING HEDGES. 



By this time the cleaning of hedges will have 

 become a work of great importance. The keep- 

 ing of hedges clean is the mod effectual means to 

 fecure their health, and to haften their maturity. 



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