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 very large. Many of the fticks thus left are 

 cut off at a proper height for hedge ftakes ; 

 then the reft of the wood left is bent down, 

 and interwoven with dead bullies, among 

 the hedge ftakes ; and fuch of the living 

 wood as is too large to bend, they cut it 

 enough at bottom to make it. Thus the 

 hedge is partly living and partly dead ; but 

 as it is well intermixed, and grows in its 

 horizontal pofture, and many of the ftakes 

 being alive, the hedge remains a long time 

 impenetrable ; fo that if you look into a 

 very old one you will fee much of the dead 

 hedge ftanding in it ; and were there good 

 ditches, all of it would remain. 



In Suffolk* Norfolk, &c. &c. in ditching, 

 they cut up all the wood, and make the 

 hedge totally of that which is dead ; the 

 confequenceof which is, the ftakes prefently 

 rot, and give way, and a horfe, or even a 

 llieep, breaks through and makes a large 

 gap ; and a high wind carries away whole 

 perches of it. The method of this country 

 is infinitely preferable, and would, with 

 Suffolk ditches, form impenetrable fences. 



The following iketches of feveral farms 

 in this neighbourhood, will mew the gene- 

 ral acconomy o£ it. 



200 acres in all 8 horfes 



140 arable 6 cows 



60 graf* 40 fheep 



£.36 rent 2 men 



1 boy 



