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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16466, 19 June 1919, Page 7

It is -said that the age of the motortractor in the fields of the Old Land will see the abolition of the hedgerows. Fields which were suitable in size to the methods of 200 years ago, when the sickle was used for reaping and the packhorse for carrying away the crops, are now considered quite unsuitable and uneconomic. Also, redundant hedgerows throughout the country occupy a very largo space, estimated at more than 600,000 acres. Mr. B. N. Wale, principal of the Soale-Hayne College, Devonshire, says that a farmer who estimated the hedges on his land at 4 or 5 feet “could scarcely believe his eyes when he saw them actually measured at II to 13 feet.” In Devon'alone, Mr. Wade writes, “if the redundant fences only—that is, those forming enclosures to less than 10 acres—were thrown down, 24,000 acres would at once be added to , the cropping capacity c? the country.” Ho estimates that if half the acreage now occupied by redundant hedgerows in England and Wales were sown with wheat there would bo a yield “sufficient to provide broad for over one million people for a whole year.” Pictures’ Safe Arrival. —A-household-er who had some valuable pictures to be removed, along with other things, employed The New Zealand Express Company, Ltd. The result was eminently satisfactory. His cherished pictures arrived quite undamaged, and he is enthusiastic about _ the care we bestowed upon his possessions/