. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 457P. At an cramph- of improving the shape and size of fields, we shall refer to R farm of 350 acres,situated in Middlesex. \Ji£. 713.) In ttiis case, the fields were larger than usual, but the fences were in. many parts from ten to fifteen yards in width, more resembling strips of copse wood than fences, as theyco
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 457P. At an cramph- of improving the shape and size of fields, we shall refer to R farm of 350 acres,situated in Middlesex. \Ji£. 713.) In ttiis case, the fields were larger than usual, but the fences were in. many parts from ten to fifteen yards in width, more resembling strips of copse wood than fences, as theycontained hazel, dogwood, black and white thorns, wild roses, brambles, and a variety of native lines of these fences were so ill calculated for carrying oft the surface-water, that in one half of thefields there were open gutters for the discharge of the water collected in the hedge-row ditches. 45S0. In the centre of one field (25), for example, above an acre was rendered waste by the water fromother fields (19, 20, and 21), which water, it is curious to remark, might, if led over the same acre agree-ably to the principles of irrigation, have produced annually at least two loads and a half of good hay, inplace of annually rendering the produce of this acre unmarketable. The water of some fields (as 16, 18,and part of 19,) fan in a diagonal direction through another (15), two acres of which might have been irri-gated bv it to advantage. 4581. In the farm, when altered (f
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