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peer, they will laft me till May. About a 

 month ago I plowed over two acres of grafs 

 with a paring fock for burning, as foon as 

 dry, and on this land I intend to plant the 

 lame fort of cabbage as before, viz. the 

 large Scotch, and alfo, the fame ground as 

 was planted this laft feafon, and give them, 

 the lame culture." 



This Gentleman is alfo particularly atten- 

 tive to the management of his fences : His 

 favourite hedge is the holly ; he fows the 

 feed in beds, and tranfplants them into rows 

 for hedges ; I meafured fome, that grew 

 upon a mcift foil, fix feet high, in fix years, 

 growth : It is indubitably the firft of all 

 fences, grows very thick, clofe to the ground, 

 and is of fo ftubborn, prickly a nature, as to 

 be impenetrable by man or beaft. 



White thorns he tranfplants at fix feet 

 high, and finds them to anfwer very well. 



Upon the whole, Mr. J)ixon has proved, 

 by the noble and fpirited manner in which 

 he has not only increafed the number of 

 people on his eftate, but advanced their in- 

 terefts, and by the fenfible attention he has. 

 given to agriculture, that the nation at large* 

 as well as this neighbourhood in particular, 

 are greatly indebted to him for his judicious 

 conduct in all matters of rural oeconomics. 



Mr. Clarke, of Belford, (one of Mr. 

 Dixsns tenants,) is very famous in the North 

 for his knowledge of mechanics. Among 



other; 



