reducing the Size and Number of Hedges. 
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increase in height too quickly. A fence, when renewed in this 
manner, will be, when properly clipped, I think, if possible, closer 
and e%'en more matted together than one fresh raised from voung 
layer. Their neatness, when either fresh raised or renewed, can 
scarcely be appreciated but by those who have seen them. In 
form they almost resemble a brick wall, and are so firmlv en- 
tangled that I have had some trouble in preventing my farming- 
b<ns from amusing themselves by walking on the top. 
I have carted clay over these fences by bending down towards 
the lowest side of the fence a sufficient portion of it to allow a 
cart to pass, having first separated it from the rest of the hedge 
by cutting from top to bottom with a bill-hook. The part bent 
down is confined by a board constructed for the purpose. Lcs 
of wood are placed under the b<iard, as well for the purpose of 
strengthening it, as for preventing the portion of the fence bent 
down from being injured. I have carted heavv loads over a 
bridge thus constructed for upwards fjf three months at a time, at 
the end of which time the hedge has been returned to its proper 
position, and the place in the fence could scarcely be seen. I 
have endeavoured to represent this by fig. 4. 
It may not be out of place here to give a sketch, fig. 5, of 
another portable bridge which I had constructed for the conve- 
nience of driving sheep to and from fold over the fence, in any 
direction required : — 
Fig. h. 
