6S MANAGEMENT OF ESTATES. 



a neceiTary fupply of fuel, in a country 

 where no gther fuel than wood can, at 

 prefent, be compaiTed by farmers, — and of 

 being, with ordinary care in repairing 

 therji, everlafting. Inftead of mouldering 

 away, and growing lefs as they increafe in 

 age, the fwclling of the roots, the falling 

 of leaves, and decayed boughs, and the 

 fhovellings of their bafes thrown upon their 

 tops, with freih fods brought from a dif- 

 tance, perhaps, to make good accidental 

 breaches, tend to increafe, rather than 

 to diminifh, the mounds,; fo that the 

 bulkinefs of fome of the old hedges may be 

 owing to time, rather than to the original 

 formation. 



The DISADVANTAGES of the Devon- 

 (liire hedges are their iiril coll;, and the 

 quantity of ground they occupy, and injure, 

 by their drip and iliade, and by the foil ufed 

 In their formation : Five and twenty feet 

 is the leaf! that can be reckoned, for the 

 width of wafte. The injury they do to 

 arable crops, in preventing a free circu« 

 ktion of air > and their being liable to be 



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