. 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. Agriculture. Book IV. PALING FENCES. 495 3050- The paling of growing trees, or rails nailed to growing posts, is made by planting beec
. 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. Agriculture. Book IV. PALING FENCES. 495 3050- The paling of growing trees, or rails nailed to growing posts, is made by planting beech, larch, or other trees, in the direction of the fence, at about a yard distant from each other, more or less, as may be thought necessary ; these trees should be pro- tected by a common dead paling, till they are ten or twelve feet high, when they should be cut down to six feet, and warped or bound together with willows at top and in the middle; cutting off the tops will have the effect of making them push out a great number of lateral branches, which, if properly warped and interwoven with the upright part of the trees in the manner described for the willow fence, will both have a beautiful effect, and will at the same time form a fine fence, which, in place of deep decaying, will grow stronger with time, and may with very little trouble be kept in perfect repair for a great length of time. 3051. The upright and horizontal shingle fences are chiefly made of firs, coarsely sawn into deals of from half an inch to an inch thick, and of different breadths according to the diameter of the tree. Pretty strong square piles are driven or set into the earth, and the deals nailed horizontally upon them, in such a manner that the under edge of the uppermost deal shall project or lap over the upper edge of the one immediately below it; the fence, when finished in this manner, will have nearly the same appearance as the bottom of a boat or cutter. An upright fence is made by fixing perp
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