Nebraska advertiser., 1858-03-25

self. But d mar off the ground cannot
make it SO chearly by 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 ever half a mile
distant. For the trouble of keeping
watch of it. and getting up team and
going to il, is more tKan all the other
work 70 be done ~w1Iensyou are there, if
bIn for a short piece--a mile or less.
g.. 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 SEASONS they are always IL
allesto be. Hence we always AXE up
ours in the fall, so far as We can, and Sc
cure them in the plant-houses; and it is
impossible to be certain of good plants,
though they may appear well in the spring,
without this car for the seeding rlants
are quite APT to be injured in severe win
tiers, more or less, aud the injury is not al
ways percepti' lie, even ~ the lest iudg-
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 " ars,
have delivered some such injured out
standing plants myself, without knowing II
till 100 late, and had them all TO Supply
again the next spring. The 81, at drought
also made sad work in llJtching many
pieces of newest hedge where the plants
were good. in 1854.
From the above and similar causes. in
riding through the country one will see a
great many specimens Of worthless, un-
slightly h, dyes, and is more aTt to see
them, unfortunate ~. on the great rail-
roads and Ihoroughfares than anywhere
else. For preci ely here those damaged
plants are most easily lawked about, and
sold chap; 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' II they commence Ihtir peregri-
nations out of the CITIES and towns, TO set
superb h6dgesm for.the farmers, for two
prices, cash down the first yea1s-these
ioand maKe c~auvenienL 10 condh net their.
0~perasinre itpn r the=railroads wlkch fhey.
usually e~enHplettd as soon as thst first or
second TayIntnt was made, and dscamp-
I'd for Parts unknown. leaving the hedg-
es aid their owners to take care of them
selves; and the latter generally found
their professional h, dye was worth nofur-
ther care for themselves than 10 try
10 plow or grub it Up, which is not SO
tasily done; for this Usage Orange
when once set out, insists that i has q
right TO make a h dge anyhow, even if
no, ut arer together tEanonce in ten reds,
AID you may CIT it as much as you
plt ase. and it still PERSISTS in its right to
live aud II axe aftnce. Tr5
Bat aside fir Mn thes4 casualties have
neverin all my experience or knowledge,
known a plant more than two liars old, or
after It's second winters growth, to be
killtd with cold here, or any other cause.
though the thermometer has Leen some
sometimes % degrees below ~zero--often
20-very oftrn 10 degrees h+low zero:
and ptach trees six inches through. and
grapt vines. and many common apple trees
of good size, have teen 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 so
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 ever brought into this country.
some twenty years ago, is still alive in my
front yard; and my oldest h. Gges are
decided the test on the place; and the
same Is true of my brothers. in Quincy.
lut further north / have harmed that the
Elants were last winter killed out so adj
" in ON T~laces in the young two year
old hedges, tiatit has discouraged their
Ioxner.-I think unwisely-f0r IN other
places still further north. / learn they
have stood well; and | mus think the er-
ror, where they were killt d out consisted
in too late culture in. the fall heSldeslt Is
hardly prola al lie that we shall have anoth.
t. winter combining so many peculiar
causes of destruction as the last perhaps
!. in a whole. century and he that abandon:
a.glung hedge, or a wheat crap. or any
thing tlse, if neodfnl on his Place, iron
one unfortunate winter, Is unwlSe. espe'
cially If there Is good rCason to think tia
some error in culture caused the caias
trophe. But / cannot, of course. and vii
not speak with any positiveness abou
either soils or climate. or anything eist
! not immediately within the range DIN!
own personal experience. 31 enc
But if Igwere TO purchase a farm fol
myself. 200 miles north of THIS my frs
4 effort would be, as it ever has BEEN here
a . hedge 1t; and if the ground 3 DR.
: and warm, | believe ] should slscreed |
a NOT / know should fail, I'LL Hade SO b
o drainage. Butdam of the opinion tina
5 there may be many places on tae poo
e sandy and graveily soils of the north
o and aso on the low and wet soils fHFlhe
south where ii will not pay to attemp
this hedge. On aur swampy and we
lanes and sxaik here, it will not do with
e out thorough draining or dykeing, so q
70 make a good. dry corn soil.
z. The only hedge / have ever hal
tilled down was burned down Under
/ burning building, winch burnt the gruuu