Nebraska advertiser., 1858-03-25
Agriculture.
The Usage Orange.

for the introduction of the Usage Orange
as a Hedge plant, has kindly furnished
the following interesting and valuable re-
marks, in reply 10 the several inquiries
which our readers So often make, in rela-
ZION TO this hedge, and they fully accord
with the limited observations aud expert
ments which we have made in themore
eastern portions of the Union.
]. ]. THOMAS, Esq.-In reply to your
inquiries. would say that Ihave watchl d
with much interest, the prospects and pro-
gress of htdges in the West for some
years past. For,E ore than twenty years
Lave teen fully convinced that with US
on the prairies, there was no possible al
tentative, and that we must hedge with
some thing for we have no stone, and in
many places not Ealf timber enough to
keep Up our buildings and railroads, to say
nothing of fencing; and as to herding
,tock where hundreds. of thousands of
of cattle and swine must pass through
the country in all directions, every year,
and almost every MOI tn in The year, on
their way 10 the gr, at markets, or to the
dealers, it would seem to be absurd.
What would protect crops against the
lean, and gautlt, starving droves of those
Mexican. rangers, who sometimes pass
through these regions with one ortwo
thousand of tLese lean kline in single
drove /? A man may well LESS lis
istars In such conditions, if he is able TO
keep his corn, hay and fruit, when licked
Up IN Lis arm or c. Lar. TO say nothing
OF leaving it all oLt on the public COM
mon. And though our own citizens are.
with scarce single exception, honest ard
upright men, sill if a man can now keep
these hosts and troops of foreign enri-
grants, movers. and drove rs, from tearing
down ten rail fence md driving through
his fields, at any rate, he will do We Il.
For these, and similar reasons, / have
deemed hl dying with us indispensal k (,
and have made many efforts u in
trDduce il; and after ONE ten y ars ex-
pertinent aud trial in our tarly history,
became sa'i>tit fully. II al TIT Gage Or
ange was the hest, and only plant tlat in
this Ilace we. could pro6salI " use. ac-
cprdiugly wrote and pul lish,d on the Sub
sect ia The Prairie FagmeF, Pattni Oiiie.
!. r ports. Rad Hniher JaIers prps9fref
seed Fsissa plants hoth for nlysish and
Tor oll 'ers, h dgg all by own lands and
grounds, and furnished plants and SEEDS
t. nv brothers aud personal friends, while
.e big pullc" still -ridIci,l, d the enter
prise as .morus multiraIdIs9 speculation,
and would buy neither ElantS nor SEED.
The result Is. that on the place where
i n0w live, have!ho other fence WI atey-
fr tut the hedge, txc, pt-atound my arm
wards, and lave not had for years. Ny
trmher, Mr.. Av,ry Turner. ,.of Quincy
also has the ht dge on his farm mostly OF
VII lily. and gord- hedges are now quite
asy to be found, and poor ones too. A
small farm of one hundr, d and twenty
acres, lying ten miles from this, ht dgtd
before sold it, all in twenty acre lots
another farm, southwest, of SEQ acres,
began to hedge into eighty acre lots, bu
sold it hefore j. was eempl, ted. / have
also made mile or two ofhtdre on Gov
DunCan's grounds, and the Illinois Col
ltge grounds, itnme diattly joining nr NJ al
10 my own homestead. This did for The
sa of improving my own place, in part
I Fave also sold latterly, from one to twC
millions of. the plants to my customers an
ns,ally for some years pat. mostly II
ibis vicinity, Tut some in almost ever,
State inthe Union; and shall stll abou
TIE same quantity tLiS spring, mostly t
old customers, or in their neighborhood
aud at the same old prices in spite of har'
times. @ ~ s.5'"
L. 1t ought to take four years! on good
rich prairie land, and no more, I,
make good stock hedge; on larren o
poorer land. of course it would tax
ProrortionaLly longer, unless manure wa
used. fol.gL 81 .@iH ~
2. In my opinion, common farm hedge
should never be cliTp d at all. at 4eaSt nc
: thing more than to cut ack overgrow
Z shOOts, 20 even the growth, till it, is three
or at least two years old--as the way
II begin at the bottom-and the frStthin
to Re formed is a vigorous root, and fC
! tits end. of course the less clipping til
! better Then cut down to the grouEt
T Cut oftrn, aud form the'htdgein a singl
year. beginning in.Farly spr.ng. 1e7.ii~.
3. Shoots willgenerallyagrow from4 I
i 6 feet long if not cut---Sometimes more
when the soil1is good. eiif s1oi -1sa
a. As 10 the proportion that proves SUI
o Cessful, / should think II about in the pro
1, portion TO the orchards that have prove
successful ,iniihe West-and your own a
: ticle and remarks in the Annual Registt
for 7{Fage 355, most clearly sets fort
2 Tie sadfact still iSJthatih there is not mo-
5, than about one man In ten that will raj;
(. any erOplwtateter ;athe majority will n
j. have more than Iwo-thirds or one-half
~ crop, Of anything, if. il is possitlelo blu
! der o1pof il. Hence. If land that wou
w easily produces 100 bushels . of corn
g the acre,is made to produce 30, It do
very well. Just so. some etbalf a he'd!
: or half an orchard. or no hedge or ]
p orchard at ail--for it sohappens thatha
a hedge or half an orchard, especially
ills the lower half that is missing,
p neither so useful nor so saleable in 4
r market as half crop of corn. But o
ST good farmers have hedges that / am I
ashamed to show against any fence,
L turn any stock In the world, not exec