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receives. United, they form an impeno- 

 trable fence, in which any farmer may 

 confide with the utmofl fecurity. 



But a further improvement remains to 

 fpeak of: it is the adding fome pofts and 



rails and pales at the ends of gates alfo 



where two or more ditches join — and like- 

 wife where a ditch changes its courfe : 

 hovs^ever well the fence may in general be 

 made, yet thefe places will be particularly 

 weak, and more open to being pafTed by 

 cattle than any others. Swine are the 

 grand enemies of fences, and the man 

 who does not fence againll hogs, I hold 

 to poflefs no fences at all : a hog will fct 

 his head near a gate pod, his nofe to the 

 ground, and force his way at once through, 

 as the ditch on the other fide is there no 

 defence : he will likewife go into a ditch 

 in one field, and running along the bot- 

 tom of it when he comes to a place where 

 it changes its courfe, pu(h through the 

 bufnes which workmen ufually fluff in, 

 and rife in the other field : and the fame 

 in the feveral places where feveral ditches 

 join ; the very befl of fences are open to 

 thefe objections, unlefs thefe weak places 

 are fecured with })aling. But when fuch 

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