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SECTION IV.

Inclofing of Land.

INCLOSING—Advantages of ', various—Contributes much to Improvements in Cultivation—Producethereby greatly augmented—Utility of, in producing Warmth and Shelter—Promotes the Fatteningof Animals—Value of Land much increafed by it—Some Sorts more than others—Turnip Soil'sprobably the mojl—Where neceffary or not—Has not been fuffciently attended to—Caufes of thisNegleil—Sometimes arifes from Mifmanagement in the Direction of Inclofures—Various Circum-fiances to be regarded in—Utility of certain Claufcs in Bills of Inclofure—Building Cottages neceffary—Situation of thus improved—Methods of appointing Perfons to tranfaEl the Buftnefs of Inclofure—Gircumflances to be attended to in—Utility of a general Act of. — FENCES—Gircumjlances to beregarded in the Making of—Particulars to be attended to in—Should be regulated by the Kind ofFarm andNature of Soil—EffeEts of differentfftzedlnclofures—Middleffizedgenerallymojl advantageous.—Difference of in Grafs and Arable Land —Circumflances to be attended to in each—Advantages ofdifferent Kinds. — WALLS—Different Kinds of, deferibed—Advantages <f each—Nature of Foun-dations of—Modes of making of-—Lijl Walls—Dry Walls—Earth and Stone Walls, or Dikes —Method of forming them, according to Dr. Anderfon—Means of protesting them—May be madecheaply—Rendered more lafitig by dajhing, lipping, and hurling with Lime — Middleton's Opinionof Walls in general—In feme Situations mojl advantageous for a limited Time. — Pail/NG-Fences—C annot be generally adopted for Farm Inclfares—Different Kinds of, deferibed —May often be cheaply made—Utility of, in particular Cafes—Hurdles or moveable Fences—Shouldbe formed of light Wood—Gircumflances to be regarded in creHing Pailing-Fences—Means of pre-ferving them from Decay .— Live HEDGES — Attention to Situation and Soil neceffary in raffing--Kind f Ground and Situation in which different Sorts of Plants may be mojl ufefu/ly employed—Different Advantages of the White and Black Thorn—The Willow- Alder, Furz, and Beech —Circumflances to be regarded in ufng a Mixture of different Sorts of Plants—Neceffary Preparationof the Land, and the Advantages of it—Proper Seafen of planting—What neceffary to attend to inchooftng the Plants — In raffing them in the Nurfery—Mffl advantageous Size of-—Thofe of equalGrowth Jhould be planted together—The trimming rcquffite for them—Methods of planting Hedges-—Vary much in Afferent D'fflriBs—On ditch Banks — On Sod turned up — On the plain Surface — Dif-ferent Ways of making them—Advantages and Difadvantagcs of each Mode—Methods recommendedy Mr. Middleton—Utility cf them—What neceffary in planting on Banks—Difadvantage of large