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the hedges upon earth ; — but the prefent 

 enquiry is the improvement of old fences. 



In cafe that any new ones are requifite, 

 which may in all probability be the cafe, 

 either from a new arrangement of the 

 fields — dividing large ones — or making 

 new fences where old ones are fo bad as 

 not to admit of thorough reparation :— 

 in any of thefe cafes, it much behoves 

 the improver to confider well the work, 

 for it is an important one. 



P.efpe6ling the fence alone, white thorn 

 unmixed with any other wood makes at 

 laft the befl: fence ; but relative to a farm, 

 there is another circumftance to be confi- 

 deredi which is, the tenant's firing. In 

 iTioft countries, the farm either fupports 

 him in this necefTary, or the landlord pays 

 an allowance of coals. Thorn hedges yield 



no firing very great ones afford fome 



buflies which may be either ufed or fold : 

 fo that if all or moft of the hedges be thorn, 



the landlord mud allow for firing or 



plant a field by way of a wood : in any 

 cafe, there is a lofs fullained. Let it not 

 here be imagined that I am fpeaking againil 

 white thorn fences ;— I am only con- 

 fidering every fide of the queflion, that the 



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