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Table I. — For Cattle. 
Cost per perch of 6 yards, on level surface, with posts a7id rails. 
Trenching the soil 2^ feet wide and 2^ feet deep 0^. 2d. 
Manure ....... 0 
Plants at 15*. per 1000 (6 plants per yard) . 0 
Planting the same . . . . .0 
Protection. 
4 posts 4^ feet in length 
12 vards of rail . 
Nails 
Labour 
Carriage of posts and rails 
2 
H 
-Is. Od. 
0 
10 
1 
2 
21 
2 3L 
Cost with single feuce complete per perch 
Add 
3 3i 
2 3i 
Cost with double fence complete per perch . 5 7 
Table IL — For Sheep. 
Trenching, manure, plants, and planting, as de- 
tailed. Table 1 10 
4 posts 4^^ feet in length . . . .10 
18 vards of rail . . . . . .13 
Xai'ls 0 H 
Labour 0 2^ 
Carriage of posts and rails . . . .0 2^ 
Cost with single fence complete . 3 9^ 
Add 2 9^- 
Cost with double fence complete . 6 7 
N.B. — From this and the foregoing estimate may be fairly deducted 
one-third of the expense for posts and rails, as many of them will serve 
for another hedge ; thus reducing the cost of planting the hedge and 
protecting it from cattle to 3^. 9c?. per perch, and that for planting and 
protecting it from sheep to 45. ad. 
Table IIL 
Ditch and Sank Fence, ivhere wood is scarce and high priced. 
Preparing the soil, manure, plants, and planting as above . Is. Od. 
Casting a ditch on one side, 5 feet wide at top, 1 foot at bottom, 
and 3 feet in depth, and forming a bank on other side with 
the soil out of the ditch . . . . . .26 
Loss by additional space of land occupied by this method, com- 
pared with Tables I. and H. (average) . . . .04 
Topping the bank with brushwood or loppings (average) . 0 7 
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