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ENCLOSING, FENCES, GATES, 
will revolve to a state of sterility; the paring and 
burning cost from 42s. to 50s. per acre. 
The peat land of Wild Moor will bear more crop¬ 
ping, but there is danger of carrying this too far. Oats 
and potatoes have in some instances been already three 
times repeated, the land seems adapted to hemp, which 
Mr. C. says it would well bear, but would answer bet¬ 
ter permanently, to clean well hy a turnip fallow and 
ay down with proper seeds for permanent meadow. 
Respecting rent or profit, the enclosing and reclaim¬ 
ing of indifferent waste land, is no very profitable spe¬ 
culation in general; nor can be expected to pay much 
more than interest of capital in addition to its former 
value as waste ; but the produce of food for mankind is 
certainly very much increased; and as a public mea¬ 
sure the enclosure and improvement of waste land can¬ 
not be too much promoted and encouraged. Mr. C. 
says, quicksets for enclosures, should be three years 
and a half, or four years old when planted, from the 
time the berries are gathered; the roots should be 
pruned of their superfluous fibres when planted. If 
these cuttings from the roots be placed in regular 
bunches, and planted in rich mould in rows one inch 
apart, and nine inches between each row, and kept 
clean from weeds, in two years these fibres will pro¬ 
duce as good quick as those from the berries in four 
years, one thousand of quick so managed will give six 
or seven thousand, or more, if it be strong and kind in 
the root. The thick part or upper end of these cuttings 
should be just slightly covered with fine mould; the 
fibres of crab quick will produce the same effeeto 
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