. Elements of practical agriculture; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm. FENCES. 647 plant in this and other countries. The chief reason is unfortu- nately a good one—the want of durability. Although a native, and, under certain circumstances, hardy, it is very apt to be destroyed by frost. It cannot, therefore, be depended upon as a permanent fence. Its duration indeed can be greatly pro- longed by regular pruning, but, under the best management, the whin is comparatively of short duration as a useful fence. When, theref
. Elements of practical agriculture; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm. FENCES. 647 plant in this and other countries. The chief reason is unfortu- nately a good one—the want of durability. Although a native, and, under certain circumstances, hardy, it is very apt to be destroyed by frost. It cannot, therefore, be depended upon as a permanent fence. Its duration indeed can be greatly pro- longed by regular pruning, but, under the best management, the whin is comparatively of short duration as a useful fence. When, therefore, a cheap and immediate fence is required, without especial regard to the time it is to last, the whin will answer the purpose well. The fences described are the stone-wall and the live-fence; but sometimes the two may be combined together, and form efficient fences. The most common of these is formed in the following man- ner :—A mound and ditch are to be made in the way already described, but the one side is Fig. 205. to be a wall of stone, of half the breadth of a common wall, and 44 feet high, as shown in the figure. This fence is therefore secured on one side, and re- quires only a row of two-bar pa- ling on the other side to secure the hedge in its young state. Another species of combined fence is what is termed a sunk fence, faced up with a dry-stone wall, as in the following figure. The base of the wall is 2 feet, and on the top is laid a coping of turf of 1| foot thick. The thorns, when the wall has reached the proper height, are laid ho- rizontally, and the stones so built that there shall be an aperture for each thorn, at the distance from one another of 9 or 10 inches. The thorns laid in this manner will shoot through the apertures between. Fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origin
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