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forty of them is to a farmer worth a groat; 

 as they grow old, they univerfally grow 

 ragged at bottom at leafl to fuch a de- 

 gree, as to render them far fhort of fen- 

 cing againft a hog and I have before 



remarked, that if you do not keep out your 

 herd of fwine, you will not your flock of 

 fheep J one animal makes way for another, 

 till at laft all go through. Thefe objec- 

 tions are very llrong againft dipt hedges 

 of 5 or 6 rows of quick : how much more 

 fo then, againft thofe of only one or two 

 rows. Another thing to be confidered is, 

 the mending a gap — to be confiftent, the 

 only method of doing this, is to pale in 

 the place, while the damaged quick gets 

 up again and thickens : if the gap is ftopt 

 with dead bufiies, that part of the hedge 

 will never recover, and the place always 

 remain weak. Nor will one farmer in ten 

 thoufand ever be perfuaded to facrifice fo 

 much to appearance as to be at the annual 

 expence of i^d. a perch in clipping. For 

 thefe and many other reafons, I cannot 

 but advife any improver to give up fuch a 

 plan : a white thorn hedge grown to a 

 large bulk and plafhed, is fuperior to all 



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