Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-12-21

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many had a fence on both sides
to protect them, and | have never
seen 100 rods of good hedge
fence, except the Orange, only
around gardens, and built at great
expense; but j have seen many
hundred rods Of Usage Orange
hedge. / will proceed to con-
trast my views with yours. You
say, shut it requires great atten-
tion,'' sc. l planted two miles
last year. and have planted eight
miles this year; after my ground
was prepared, my men set 40 rods
a day. ! go four or five times
over it in the summer with the
cultivator, and three or four times
with a hoe, enough to keep the
weeds down all the time, and al
ter the first year, ] cut it twice
with the scythe; and it takes four
or five years to make a fence, cost
ing one days work for forty rods
in planting, as much for hoeing
and cultiyating as it would
cost TO hoe a row OF corn, and no
more; say a half day for cutting
and hoeing forty rods yearly,
which for five years would be two
and half days, making in all
three and a half days, for forty
rods, at 81 a day, would be $3.50
The cost of preparing good dry
ground, and the cost Of the plants
for forty rods, would not exceed
"a so, or 20 cents a rod. There
is a company here who set out
thousands Of rods of Usage hedge
yearly; they charge sixty cents a
rod, but GET little pay down; they
guarantee a good fence, and wait
for most of the pay until the
work is perfected. 1t is true that
the ground should be well prepar.
led, and all the work well done
and in season, to make y good
hedge row; SO it must to make q
good row Of corn, and there is nc
more difficulty, and but little more
labor, in cultivating the Usage row
than the corn row. / agree with
you that it is greedy feeder
but with us it does not "extent
Its roots far and wide and exhaus
the CROP" etc; but on the contra
ry, the roots run right down, grow
} ing to twice the size Of the stalk
and drawing its support from deei
down in the earth, and you can
not strike the root with the pillow
and | never saw a sucker grow
from it; and further, the lowe
branches do not want interlacin'
as you say.
Day before yesterday l was OF
, the grounds Of my neighbor, Capt
James Moore, who is an intelll
J. gent horticulturist, has sixty rod
: Of Usage Orange hedge, that h
: planted FIVE years ago. | do no
: believe that an animal larger tina
> a rat or smaller than a camelec
, pard can get through or over i
: the lower branches are so thoro'l
!, linterlaced, clear down to tn
ground, that you cannot see thrc
= it, and / think a snake would b
badly scratched before he coul
: get through it, | asked Cap
7 Moore if he considered it any az
y vantage to interlace the lowe
. branches; he said, "No, that won
u do; / interlaced some Of mine an
y fonnd they chafed each other: 1
II | took a bush scythe and cut the
; all out, and now you see natui
;. has done her work much moi
y perfectly than | could" We
: we walked along the border Of h
!. fence thirty rods. First we can
J to some Isabella grapes, the 70
. running downclear into the hedg
5 the Usage Orange limbs brushi1
n the grape as the wind moved the
4 about; 1--WE had just read your a
d ticle,) but we could not see b.
- the grapes we're as thrifty, bore
y we'll, and every way as good, I
those further from the hedge, G,
y cept not quite so forward; ne,
e came strawberries, then sweet p
u tatoes, then nursery trees, Q
= growing clear down to the hedg
l. thrifty, none Of them retardt
y in growth, more than any 9th
Is green shrub would have done
y its shade.
~ The used Orange is more @
'e tensively in this than any 9th
'e State. The great scarcity Of til
D. Der calls for hedges, and the pla
D. was thoroughly tested many yea
n ago, by Prof j. B. Turner,
g. Jacksonville ILL.,; and after testil
AZ it himself, he wrote about it tai
70 ed about, raised the plants exte
g. siyeIy, and spread them all oy
the State, with thorough instru
n. tons for their cultivation; so th