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will a. feikce all of Locust^ cost ? Besides the differ- 

 ence in the look of the tiling ; besides the vast dif- 

 ference in fiie nature and effect of the shelter and 

 the shade ; and besides, that, after all, you have, in 

 the wooden lence, no effectual protection against 

 invaders, 



52. However, there is one thing, which must not 

 be omitted; and that is, that the hedge will not be 

 ^ fence ^ or, at least, I would not look upon it as 

 such, until it had been planted six years. During 

 these six years, there must be a fence all round on 

 the outside of it, to keep ofl' pigs, sheep and cattle : 

 for, as to the two-legged assailants nothing will keep 

 them off except a quick-set hedge. If I had to make 

 this temporory fence, it should be a dead hedge, 

 made of split hickory rods, like those that hoops 

 are made of, and with stakes of the stoutest parts of 

 the same rods, or of oak saplings, or some such 

 things. The workmanship of this, if I had a 

 Hampshire or Sussex hedger, would not cost me 

 more than six cents a rod : perhaps, the stuff would 

 not cost more than a quarter of a dollar a rod ; and 

 this fence would last, with a little mending, as long 



, as I should want it. But, as few good hedgers come 

 from England, and as those who do come appear 

 to think, that they have done enough of hedging in 

 their own country, or, if they be set to hedging here, 

 seem to look upon themselves as a sort o^ conjurors, 

 and to expect to be paid and treated accordingly, 

 the best \^ ay, probably, is, to put up a temporary 

 post-and-riil fence, sufficient to keep out a sucking 

 pig : and to keep this fence standing until the hedge 

 has arrived at the age of six years, as before men- 

 tioned. 



53. There yet remains one advantage, and that 

 not a small one, that a quick-set hedge possesses 



