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of getting up the ftones. In ftating the above 

 price, I fuppole, that the ftone quarry is 

 not above five or fi.x hundred yards from 

 the work, and that a good labourer can get 

 up at leaft two loads in a day. A bank with 

 a poft and double rail, with us cofts '^s.per 

 rood, is hardly to be depended on, at firft, 

 as a fence for fheep, and is perpetually out 

 of repair. But though I ftrongly recom- 

 mend a trial of thefe ftone fences, I would 

 by no means exclude the planting of 

 quickwood hedges, which afford the beft 

 fhelter, and are highly ornamental : A 

 double fence, at ten or a dozen yards 

 diftance, and the intermediate fpace planted 

 thick with trees and hedges and underwood, 

 would be the moft fightly, the moft con- 

 venient, and the moft profitable. 



I have inclofed 300 acres on the top of 

 the wolds, and have laid down the greateft 

 part with various kinds of grafles : Sainfoine 

 makes the moft general improvement, but 

 it does not fuccced in all parts alike, and 

 indeed in fome will not do at all ; where 

 the foil is llialloweft and moft ftony or 

 gravelly, it profpers beft : The greateft part 

 of my fainfoine is drilled in rows a foot 

 afunder, this takes but half the feed, and 

 brings as good a crop as that which is fbwed 

 broad-caft. White clover, ray-grafs, rib- 

 grafs, and burnet, fucceed pretty well with 

 me ; thefe grafles taken at an average, a 



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