CLEANING HEDGES. 447 



docks, hemlock, and other large weeds. When 

 fuch are allowed to remain, they not only rot the 

 hedge, but render it bare and naked at the places 

 where they grow. They muft therefore be care- 

 fully removed at this time ; and the hedges will 

 continue, in this refpecl:, comparatively clean dur- 

 ing the feafon. 



MAKING FENCES. 



Sunk Fences, Sunk-Fence Walls, together with 

 walls of all forts, are dill to be carried on. Turf 

 walls and top dikes may alfo be conftrufted. It 

 may be proper again to notice, that top dikes 

 fhould not be erected till a year after the earth 

 has been thrown from the ditches, and had time 

 to get compared ; otherwife the ground will be 

 apt to fink unequally, and thus occafion the. 

 downfai of the dike. 



AUGUST. 



