•Ida HEDGES. 14. 



tops to over-hang the young fhoots, is 'here too 

 prevalent. But fufTering the foil to be waflied 

 away from the roots, is not more deflrudtive 

 to a hedge than is this vile pradticc. 



If *' kid" and " oven-fuci" be wanted, let a 

 hedtre which is full-g-rown be felled to the 

 flub. There is fcarcely a farm in the Diftridt 

 which is not more or lefs '■ wood-bound ;" that 

 is, injured by overgrown hedges ; which are, 

 year after year, receiving irreparable damage for 

 want of cutting; while the undergrown ones 

 are damaged by a lefs pardonable treatment. 



The tenant's motive is founded in felf-inte- 

 reft : he gets fuel and " manner," without 

 •any contingent expence pr trouble; — and whe- 

 ther the hedge endure, henceforward, for one 

 or for two centuries, is not an objecl to him. 

 But as, at the expiration of his leafe, his farm 

 will be worth more or lefs, according to the 

 flate of its fences, it ought to be the efpecial 

 care of the landlord, or of his agent, to fee 

 that they are properly treated, 



V. The method of raising new hedges in 

 Norfolk is a cheap one j and may be prat^ifcd 



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