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rally be found convenient upon most farms, to have a fewsmall inclosures of rich old turf, or meadow, for particularpurposes, connected with the accommodation of the stock;and one or two small inclosures may be useful for experi-ments, or for propagating new varieties of seed. This im-portant subject has been elucidated, in the work already men-tioned, on the Husbandry of Scotland.

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OF TflE DRY STONE-WALL , AND GALLOWAY DIKE.

JThf. Galloway dike, or most approved form of the drystone-wall, owes its name to the circumstance of its havingbeen originally introduced into use in Galloway; and we be-lieve, if not invented by the late Mr Macadam of Craigcngil-lan, was at least much improved in its construction, and firstbrought into extensive use upon his large grazing estate inAyrshire. This fence consists entirely of a stone-wall, builtwithout the use of lime or any other mortar. Two-thirds ofits height, from the surface upwards, are regularly and even-ly built on both sides, well filled in or packed in the heart,and ought to be tied or strengthened, at short intervals, bylong stones reaching from side to side, called thorough-lands,at least one such in every yard of length. When this firstportion of the wall is finished, and regularly levelled at thetop, the upper third part of its height is built of long roughstones, laid across the wall or dike, having firm hold of eachother laterally, but not packed in the heart, the largest stonesused in the lowest course, and gradually diminishing to thotop. Large rough quarried stones of a durable kind, parti-cularly whin-stone, moor-stone, basalt, or trap, are most suit-