ON INCLOSING LAND

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carefully jointed and well painted, appear to deserve prefe-rence. Where living trees of some size can be procured, wehave seen them transplanted for gate posts with their roots;and when such take root and live, their permanence is beyondany other material.

3. Water is a most important consideration in the planningand execution of inclosures ; whether the object in view beits collection and distribution for the use of pasturing ani-mals, or to convey it from the fields; or to direct it for otheruses 'after passing through them, as for threshing or othermills, for irrigation, for ponds, bleaching, or other purposes.To accomplish every necessary end, and at the same time toprevent injury from this element, the drains, conduits, bridges,gates, fence ditches, and roads, require to be designed withskill, and constructed with attention. In conducting wa-ter through fields, it is of material importance to take carethat the slopes be gentle, and not more than sufficient foreasy transmission ; as, when water is conveyed down fenceditches, or open conduits, of considerable declivity, it is aptto produce important injury in its progress, by washing awaythe sides of its channels, often to a great extent.

4. As the working of minerals may very materially inter-fere with the plan of inclosure, and become afterwards veryinconvenient and hurtful; it would be prudent, especially ina mineral district, to make proper trials and surveys, in orderto ascertain the mineral structure of the lands, before a planof inclosure is finally determined on, and carried into exercution, so as to adapt its arrangement to the circumstancesof the case.

5. Before executing apian of inclosure, it may be expedientto consider how far its materials may afterwards become use-ful in the adjacent country, and consequently profitable to theowner. In some districts hazels, and in others willows orosiers, are much wanted; in some the timber growing inhedge-rows is of much value; almost in all cases, the cuttingsof thorn-hedges are useful for dead hedges; or any substance