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ON INCLOSING LAND

may be necessary in regard to climate. If the soil be wet, alarge proportion of the fences ought also to be planned andconstructed for the additional purpose of drainage.

3. If the lands to be inclosed are to be occupied in pas-ture, the plan must be adapted to that end, taking intoconsideration the particular kind of stock with which it isto be occupied. The same kind of fence that may sufficient-ly confine cattle, does not answer for sheep ; and variousbreeds of sheep require different kinds of fences. The ge-neral objects of consideration on this head are, to save ex-pence in herding and attendance, to arrange the stock, toenable them to pasture quietly, undisturbed by dogs or otherviolence, and to shelter them, as effectually as may be, fromcold and storms.

4. If the lands are to be chiefly occupied under grain, orother cultivated crops, the great objects of inclosure must be,a good arrangement of the fields for easy and correct accessand cultivation, and for the effectual protection of the cropsfrom trespass and depredation.

5. When a mixed mode of occupancy is in view, embra-cing both cultivation and pasturage, a combination of theforegoing considerations must form the basis for a properplan of inclosure.

SECT. II.

ADVANTAGES OF INCLOSURE TO PROPRIETORS.

Under many defects in the plan still usually pursued, andin the modes of execution, inclosures are considered so ne-cessary and useful by all practical farmers, that, in consider-ation of having their land properly inclosed and fenced, theyreadily agree to pay a liberal percentage to the landlord forthe expence, and to uphold the fences at their own charges