Hedging and Ditching, if done properly, is hard work, especially if there is any grubbing.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
He lives in a log-cabin of his own construction; wife, daughter, and son all join the father in hard field-labor, not a small share of which was observed to be Ditching, in order to render the marshy soil available for crops.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The reed-pulp paper-mill went up; there was an immense quantity of Ditching and levelling carried on in the swamp.
"True and Other Stories"
George Parsons Lathrop