Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1851-07-31
Several OBSERVATIONS en- Hedges aHI TRES.

Several Observations en- Hedges auI frers.
MEssBs. EDrToRs Having had some
little experience with the Usage Orange.
Gophers. Orchards, Nurseries sc. it
may be that | could say something that
would be Of advantage to some OF YOUR
readers. At any rate having a little Isl
sure while it rains, | viii address yoa =
few remarks.
First, l would say to farmers whose
premises are the habitation ot the red 20
piers DO not buy Usage Orange plants
for hedging. till you have first eradicated
the gOphers. by some means or other for
| have found by experience that the go-
pliers will eat them up almost root and
branch. | have been striving for two or
three years 10 rid the gophcrs from my
premises, but did not succeed well tiil
this spring. During the past week
caught nine, with little steel trap that
has teeth Smooth-iawed traps arc not
so good, for the gophers viii often get
loose, unless the spring is strong and cor
rectly set to the jaws
l see that one Of your correspondents,
in your February number. page I states
ange from cuttings bat failed That they
commenced growing bat died in the heat
Of the summer. sc Now what | have TO
say concerning this, Is, that ] tried the
same experiment last season with several
hundred slips and the result was that
they nearly all grew, and none died in heat
Of summer or cold of winter | also cut
some Of the roots into pieces about Ave or
six inches long, and planted them, and
they also grew
As to whether Usage plants raised from
cuttings will answer for hedging or not +
have only to say that | am unable. as yes
to discover any good reason why they
should not
Two years ago. l planted some twentv.
odd dollars worth of Usage Orange seed.
Some [ managed one way and some anoth-
er-but they came up poorly and the
eut-worms aud gophers DESTROYED a part
OF what did grow. In thc fall [ took some
Of them up and buried them And part
! left standing to shift for themselves -
Those that were buried kept safe but the
others were mostly killed by the winter
The second season | cut the tons ofi
from some of them and threw straw over
the stubs. The balance | left 10 -hifr for
themselves again. Bat none were killed
this time. But as last winter was mild
one for safety l would advise protection
the two first winters Iii the soil and eli
mate of the northern half Of Illinois ami
and greater part of Iowa
But a word or two more ab0ul the seed
My experience with the seed has brought
me to the conclusion. that every good seed
o-+i. L
planting in the fall.
And now word or two about orchard
Experience has convinced me that low tor
ped trees are less Liable to deceasc than
high pruned ones And headin. d0wn
affects the constitution of "a tree less shan
pruning the stem. This way Of trimming
the stem OF tree till il looks more Ike
fishing pole than IN apple tree. is too much
ike sIuQeing the body Of a sheen 10 make
the fleece grow on the tail
If trees are planted in wet ground,
there should be no hole dug for the trees
they should be set right on top Of the
ground, and little mound raised around
them to cover the roots. One Of the Thrift
lest trees ia my orchard was planted in
this way
4 word or two about nurseries. Trees
should not be crowded in the nurseries
for it will make them grow so slim that
they will be as unfit to stand the prairie
winds when set in the orchard as a black
snake would be to stand on its head -
Neither should they be trimmed mucn a.
it viii also make them slim bodied, beside
injuring them otherwise
/ have new mode of propagation that
I think is decidedly cheaper and better
every way than either grating. budding,
or layering. But the shower is over aud
| have not time now to give you the mo-
duS OperaHd4.
GEORGE ". SEWERS.
0skaloosa, Mahaska Co. Iowa, May is ;
[Prairie Farmer, July 1881
PLor AGAINST KossUTrs-A correspon-
dent writing from ConstantinopIe, May
18th, says
Just now a plot has been discovered
for the death of Kossuth Some Slave
mans were employed (by Aus;rjans no
doubt) to 60 to Kutayeh, where be is con
fined and pretend TO assist him and bis
companions to escape then, in their at
tempt to escape, they we're to be slut
THIS plot vas exposed by a woman, and
immediately the Turkish government sent
a steamer in pursuit Of these men. aud
the were arrested ~ \ otserter