The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1854-04-20
osago Orange

The following directions for making hedge
with Usage Orange, Maclura or Bois D.
Arc, have been handed us for publication by
friend, for the benefit of the farmers:--
! About three weeks before the time for
planting corn, mix thoroughly and evenly
through each other, by long stirring, -four
4 bushels Of seed with one Of sand. Qt the
seed has been soaked twenty -four to teirty
hours in water, from 20 deg. to 100 deg. be-
I fore being mixed with the sand, it viii
4 bring them forward sooner.)
1 Make this mixture about as moist as the
soil should be to bring corn quickly, and
spread it in boxes, taking care that in nc
1 instance it il more than six inches deep, and
81, it in the strong light and heat of the sun.
4 Freezing before the seed sprout will not in
jure it. Keep thick fold of cloth spread
over the seed To prevent that on the top
/ from getting too dry. Stir the mixture up
/ from the bottom every day to give the seed
air. and as the seed begin to burst open
be careful that they are not too moist, for
wet and cold at this time is death to them.
! In two or three weeks, they will be f.
nally sprouted, and must be Immediately
planted.
For the nursery, take clean rich soil
New bottom land is best. Pow deep and
harrow well Let the soil be well pulveriz-
ed; then, with light plow, open your rows
eighteen inches apart, and scatter the seed.
by sitting through the fingers of the half
open hand. SO as to cover the bottom OF
the furrows thick enough to put one and a
half bushels to the acre. The plants are
slow in coming up, and must be sowed III
land that is fresh piowed. or the weeds will
get the start, and choke the plants, or
smother them before they get up, or after
they come up. as they grow very slow for sev-
crai weeks, and are easily destroyed in this
way They must be well cultivated in the
nursery the first year.
Take up and set in the hedge the next
spring.
A plow with a sharp sher. and without
any mould board, can be run so as to cut III
the roots of eight inches below the surface,
and then. having the hands protected with
strong gloves, gather the plants by the tops,
and raise them in buncnts and tie them, and
but Of the tops two inches above the roo
with an axe. They are now ready to set IN
the Hedge.
The Hedge Row must be plowed twice,
six or eight feet wide, first throwing
the soil out, and then in, and then harrow
level.
Stretch line where 'he hedge is to be
located marked regularly from FIVE to sly
inches. Two hands are requisite from the
successful prosecution of this department OF
the busness-one to use the spade, (Which
by experience, has been proved to be the
best instrument in use,) which must be IN
serted at each mark Oh the line, with a
slight slant, after which the top must be
| pushed forward, in order to give room be.
mind the spade for the plant, which must be
inserted by the second person before the
spade is drawn.
The plants should be we'll cultivated the
first two seasons after setting. About the
25th Of March following the setting OF the
hedge, it should be cut three inches above
the last cutting, or FIVE inches from the
ground The 25th of June following, cut
twelve inches from the ground, and agaiI
the next March eighteen inches from the
| ground. aud SO on, as circums tances may di
rect Stock, in all cases. must be prohloi-
ted the first two years.