Nebraska advertiser., 1858-03-25
VOL. II. CITY OF BROWNVILLE,@ @NENIAHA COUN

o. suppose Inc actual COST OI goOu
stock hedge, on good land. at the rate we
now sell plants, ought not to exceed fifty
cents per rod, if made by the farmer him
self. But man off the ground cannot
make it so cheaply ty nearly one-half.
Al least would much rather make two
rods of hedge on my own grounds, than
one rod on another man S even if not more
than a single mile, or even half mile
distant. For the trouble of keeping
watch Of il. and getting upa team and
going to il, is more ttan all the other
work TO be done whehsyoo are there, if
but for short piece--a mile or less.
6. The late severe winters have not
injured our hedges here at ALL Last win
ter thousands and millions Of young seed
ling plants were destroyed in the nurse
ry, as in such stasons they are always IL
ablesto be. Hence we always AXE up
ours in the fall, so far as we can, and Sc
cure lht m in the plant-heuses; and it is
impossible to be certain of good plants,
though the y may appear well in the spring,
without this car for the seeding rlants
are quite apt to be injured in severe win
ttrs, more or less, and the injury is not al
ways percep'i' le, even Iy the Test judg-
es, till after they are in the hedge-row;
and purchasing such plants has, perhaps,
more than any one cause, covered the
country in places with broken, worthless
hedges. Twice in the last fifteen yt ars,
have delivered some such injured out
standing plants myself, without knowing it
till 100 late, and had them all TO supply
again the next spring. The or, at drought
also made sad work in llJtching many
pieces of new-set hedge where the plants
were good, in 1854.
From The above and similar causes. in
riding through the country one will see
gre at many specimens If worthless, un-
sighlly h, dges, and is more. apt to see
them, unfortunately. on the great rail-
roads and thoroughfares than anywhere
else. For preci ely here those damaged
plants are most easily Iawktd about. and
sold cheap; and great droves of stock are
most likely to range and try the work Of
car less hands and neglected fences. Be-
sides those professional hedge-nakers,
who do not always know a plow from a
hoe wh' they commence their peregri-
nations out of the cities and towns, to set
"Superb hedgesnn for tbs. farmers. for two
prices, cash down the first year,-these
ioend ism0I.e convenient 10 conduct their
opera4isFs ssar tl1c rnill.oads which they
ispqll y eqlnplettd d as sooh as the first or
second Tayntent was made, and decamp-
I'd for Parts unknown. leaving the hedg-
es aud their owners to take care of them
selves; and the latter generally found
their profession h, dge was worth nofur-
thtr care for themselves than to try
10 plow or grub it Up, which is not SO
tasty done; for this Usage Orange
when once set out, insists that it has q
right to make b. dge anyhow, even if
not ut arer together tEanonce in ten rods,
AID you may CIT 1T as much as you
pit tase. and it still PERSISTS in its right to
live aud II axe a,ftnoe, y95;g F
Bat aside fir nn these casualties. / have
neyeriu all my experience or know6 dge,
known plant more than two y, ars old, OF
after its second winters growth, to be
killt d with cold here, or any other cause.
though the thermometer has Teen some.
sometimes % degrees below zero--often
20-very often 10 degrees .ht low zero:
and peach trees six inches. through. and
graptvInes, and many common apple trees
of good size, have Iteen killed in my
! grounds. side ly side with the hedge.
quite to the ground. In severe winters
the tops of the hedges are always killed
down more or less. Tut the root never sc
far; and all the killing Of the top has on.
ly amounted IN practice here to the saw
ing of one good springs pruning. The
first plant yer brought into this country
scme twenty years ago, is still alive in my
front yard; and my oldest ht Gges are
decide dly the test on the place; and the
same is true of my ,brother'S lin Quincy
lut further north l have ltarncd that the
) plants were last winter killed out so | ad
ly in some + laces in the. young two yea
5 old hedges, thatit. has discouraged thei
ovner-I think unwisely-for in other
] places still further north, / l'arn the!
have stood well; and must think the er
5 ror, where they were killt d out. consisted
: lin TOO late culture inthe fall: hesidesilt j
+ hardly prol al Ie that we shall have anoth
> er winter combining so. many pecnlia
! causes of destruction as the last. perfap
: in a whole century land he that abandon
? a,yLung hedge, or a wht at CT 9p.or any
0 thing lse, if neodfnl on his PLACE, froH
, one unfortunate winter, is unwlsf, espe
cially if there is good reason to think tha
some error in culture caused the catas
: trophe. But | cannot, of course. and WI
not speak with any positiyeness abou
: either soils, or climate. or anything els
! not imme diattly within the range ofsm
4 own personal experience. c3L5 L5al q,
el But if Iwere 10 purchase a farm. fe
e myself. goo miles north of this my fir:
IT Ieffort would be, as it ever has been here
a p hedge 1t; and if the ground was Or
= and warm, / believe should succeed (; !
d noS I know ] should fail, I'LL made 50 b
o drainage. ButI am of the opinion tha
s there may be many places on the poe
e sandy and gravelly soils of the nortl
10 and aso on the low and wet soils farthe
II south where it will not Pay to atteml
if this hedge. On eur swampy and WI
is lands and swails here, it will not do witt
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