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 715 dered more compact and commodious. This farm, being in
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 715 dered more compact and commodious. This farm, being intersected by a public lane, afTords an example in which no private roads arc wanted. The size and shape of the fields were improved, and the broad fences reduced as in the preceding case, and attended with the same advantages in an agricultural point of view. 458.'. Bvi Ihoitgh in oJiertTtf^ broad Jhices tlipre are obvious and indisputable advantages to the farmer, yet, as jusUy observed by Loch, train is not every thing. *• The fences on the Marquess of Stafford's estates,' he says, ** were liable to the same objec- tion which is applicable to a great proportion of the counties of England. They are not composed of quick, at least but in a scanty degree; they for the most part consist of bushes, growing from the stump of every sort of forest-tree, intermixed with hazel, birch, homljeam, maple, alder, willow, &c. They are planted on high and dry moundi, and thus are subject to con- Btant decay. They occupy too much groiuid, providtd agricul- ture alone were the occupation of life. But as they give great protection, when they thrive, to the game, they become an im- portant object of preservation, inasmuch as every tiling must De of consequence which contributes to the sport, and has the ertect of retaining the gentry of England much upon their' estates. For this reason, it may occasionally be jiroper to con- sider of the best w.^y to ^iteserve these hedges at the least expens
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