. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. 238 THE BOOK OF THE FARM—WINTER. tion of the adjoining field to some ditch or drain aheady existing at a lower level. 3. Undulations of the ground cause another inconvenience in hedge-plantin<^, by retaining vi'ater in the hollows behind the hedge- bank. Such collections of water, though only of temporary existence, in- jure much any hedge, but especially a young one. The only effectual way of getting rid of them is fortunately a simple one,
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. 238 THE BOOK OF THE FARM—WINTER. tion of the adjoining field to some ditch or drain aheady existing at a lower level. 3. Undulations of the ground cause another inconvenience in hedge-plantin<^, by retaining vi'ater in the hollows behind the hedge- bank. Such collections of water, though only of temporary existence, in- jure much any hedge, but especially a young one. The only effectual way of getting rid of them is fortunately a simple one, which is by con- structing a conduit through the hedge-bank from each such hollow to the bottom of the ditch ; and as these conduits must be founded upon the sub- soil, completely under the black mould, and a little above the bottom of the ditch, they are most conveniently built after the ditch has been en- tirely dug out; and on this account the thorn-bed cannot be formed across these hollows until after the completion of the ditch and hedge-bank on both sides of them. Some taste and dexterity are required in the hedger to fill up the gaps thus left in the planting of the hedge and finishing them neatly afterward. Fig. 43 will give you an idea how to overcome the in- Fig. PLAN HOW TO PREVENT WATER LODGING IN HOLLOWS OF FENCES. convenience created by these hollows, where a is the line of hedge upon the natural surface of the undulating gi-ound, h the top of the hedge-bank parallel to the hedge, c the bottom of the ditch, exposed to view by the entire removal of the gi'ound on this side of the ditch, and which removal also shows the positions of the conduits d, which carry the stagnant water away from behind the hedge-bank through below the hedge in the lowest part of the undulations of the ground, and it also shows the position of the drain c through the adjacent ground. It will be observed that the bot- t(>m of the ditch c is not quite parallel with the dotted line o
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