Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-10-27

coming ihll
Mustang wine requires age, and repeated
racking of and other manipulations, TO bring
il to anything like the degree Of perfection II
is capable Of being brought TO, Ii is an eS'
cellent wine, but in lis natural state contains
a very large proportion Of iartaric acid, which,
however, il percipiaies in the cask with time,
Drs. Key, Graves, Red and other practicing
physicians here, prescribe il, whenever TO
be had, as the best OF all tonics TO patients in
state Of eonyaleseense and especially after
low fevers
My correspondent enquiries farther-"Ihe
number Of gallons OF syrup that the common
sugar cane will yield TO the acre in Texas,
when grown; the number Of acres usually
cultivated to the hand. and the number of cal.
Ions Of juice TO make one Of syrupi ! want
tins information 10 compare il TO the Sorgho."
will leave you TO reply TO these queries.
A very considerable quantity Of syrup hn-
been made generally throughout the interior
o. Texas this season. In this vicinity several
mills and furnaces have been erected, and much
excellent syrup made, and which will serve
the general purposes Of Soeetening.
My correspondents chief topic, however, is
Hedging, and with the Cherokee Rose. He
understands that propose to "accept of con-
tracts on liberal terms" to hedge for others
On this head let me refer HIM TO your adver.
tising colums. And farther permit me to say,
am by no means welded to this Particular
plant, the Cherokee Rose, so called bu would
be glad indeed TO find another better adopted
to the purpose. In the double @hite micro.
phylla Rose, think we have ono equally as
well, perhaps better suited to the stiff black
prairie lands because equally hardy well arm
ed and impervious. yet not so rampant. For
rich bottom lands prefer the so.called Chick.
asaw Rose, which resembles the Cherokee,
but with smaller, closer, squotty evergreen 70.
liuge and less rampant habit. Upon HE whole,
however, the Cherokee may prove the safest,
if the experience of hundreds running through
period Of fifty years or more in South Cato.
lima, Georgia, Mississippi &c, goes f5t any
thing and especially considering the thousands
of miles OF thorough fence Of this plant which
exist That it will suit equally well al! soils
and localities may well be doubted. For the
low sea-coast prairie the Guisachee or Wee
satchie will, no doubt, prove to be the better
hedging plant For the thinner and poor up
land prairies it is more than probable that the
Osage Orange will be the best adapted. |
had great confidence in the relative Cocks
spur Hawthorn until this season, when it has
been almost entirely destroyed by a small in.
sect of the Aphis family, which operates un.
delneath the leaf; and which same insect has
been very destructive to the Ounce trees
And from dread of this same insect, say
nothing of the Pyracantha thorn, though as
yet no damage has been done. In Western
Texas, the Yucca spanish bayonet, and the
Opunta or Prickly Pear either separated OF
mixed together in the end could feel conf
dent, be made to form an impossible barrier
There is small tree here, Of the Rhameus OF
Buckthorn family, called the India-rubber tree
of which, too, good hedges could be made.
In this, however, it is not question of what
skill and industry could or might do, but of
what may be done economically and profia.
bly,. The plant which when made into a
hedge must receive certain and very consid.
cradle expenditure of labor annually to keep
it in the form and serve the purpose of fence,
is of doubtful value here for that object. That
some labor ought to be bestowed on hedge of
any kind, at least once a year, is sure. But
that plant will best serve our purposes, which
will hold its own through year of neg lect,
should circumstances compel its being neglec-
ted, and will still continue to form good
fence, and may again he brought into its prop
er form as perfect hedge, so 500 as circum-
stances will permit the bestowal of the labor
needfu. In the three roses named, think
we have these pants-Cherok.e, Chickasaw
and white Microphyla.
1t is true, could undertake contracts to
hedge, this fall, at so much per mile. But il
is doubtful if any have their hedge rows ready
for the plants. Hence it would be better to
have that done thoroughly during the coming
winter, and the planting could then be done to
some good purpose the following fall. Still
where the intended lines of hedge have been
already in cultivation, and not less than from
ten to twenty miles in neighborhood could
be done now. The terms as named IN
vour advertising columns, are SlCO per
mile; payable one half when the hedge is
planted, one.fourlh after the dressing and re-
planting is done the next fall, and the remain
ing fourth the fall following. The parties for
whom hedge must prepare the hedge-row
thus-It should be thoroughly plowed (havinns
been broken up at least one year before) TO the
width of ten feet, and as deep as possible
| If done thus winter to be planted next fall, a
crop of cotton, peas. or sweetpotatoes might
be taken from it. As early as practicable in
the fail it is to be planted, it should again be
we'll broken up and narrowed, ridging TO the
centre. then furnish the cuttings or young
plants, and plant. The young hedge must
then be tended by the owner, as il 1t was so
much cotton. The following fall lprune and
dr., IS 1t, rep,anting when needed. And again
the owner tends as before, with some little ad-
ditional work as shall direct The next fall,
/ again prune, dress, and arrange it, leaving il
an entire unbroken line of young hedge, which
if properly treated, will form perfect fence
the fourth year. plant two rows of cuttings
giving close and solid bottom to the hedge
think our Eutaw friend will here find al