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But the mod effcdual way of preventing 

 cattle from throwing off the edders, which 

 method is here fometimes pra(flircd, is to carry 

 on the two operations of eddering and filling 

 together, burying the fprayey tops of the edders, 

 (imong the filling ; by which means they are 

 effefluaily lecured from the horns of cattle ; 

 and even while they remain found, from the 

 hands of hedge-breakers. 



5. Live Hedges. The management of 

 hedges appears to me a matter of fo much 

 importance in the management of an estate, 

 and is a fubjcft to which I have paid fo much 

 attention, that I always find it difficult, 

 whenever I fit down to v/rite upon it, to con- 

 fine myfelf within due limits. 



In this Diftrict I find ample matter to ani- 

 madvert upon. The nnclt hedges in the 

 kingdom (if any one particular fpot cm 

 claim a fuperlority) are now growing in this 

 neighbourhood ; and more new ideas re- 

 fpedting the management of hedges have oc- 

 curred to me in the Diftrid: now under notice, 

 than in all the others I have vifited. It would 

 therefore be wrong to treat the fubjeift night- 

 ly in this place. But I will endeavour to 



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