An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 uninterrupted possession of the metalled road, and the other
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 uninterrupted possession of the metalled road, and the others of the earth road. In many cases, farm roads of this description are only metalled in tlie hoise tracks (Jig. 535. ii) and ^vheel ruts {b c), which, on dry firm- bottomed land, and with care- ful preservation, is found to answer very well. 3535. Open farm roads, Beatson obsei-^es, should be, as much as possible, placed on the headlands of the fields ; that is, the portion of land adjacent to the hedge, on which the plough is turned ; and every opportunity should be taken of placing gates, so that either 536 side of a hedge may be used as a road ( fi<r. 536'.), to avoid driving over a field in tillage. This may be .easily effected by a few gates being placed in the line of the headland or nearly so, and not too near each -hedge or to each other, so that a waggon may easily '_ drive through them on the right or left, as the crops â may require; a few hurdles (a) may guard each field in grain alternately, and will furnish a useful 'fold or enclosure to detain sheep, colts, &c. 353C. Horse roads are paths for the transit of 'single horses with a rider, or a back load : they are commonly of earth, and from six to ten feet wide : the statute width is eight feet. 3537. Footpaths are tracks for pedestrians; some- times metalled to the widtli of three or four feet; but often of the natural surface. 3538. I'aved roads are of three kinds : tliose with small stones, or causeways,
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