The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-04-27
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copy from the <'rGsrIe farmer:
EDS. PRAIRIE FARMER: fit is d.s;rabI.
to raise your own plants, take good seed
pour on water, nearly boiling, and keen Il
somewhat warm, covered with old carpe,
or something of that kind ; drain the water
of and keep the seed always damp-putting
on warm water two or three times each day:
for if the seed is allowed to stand when cold
twill pc liable tosrot. Do not plant until
the seed is pretty well sprouted, as it comes
up slowly and you will find plenty of work
keeping down weeds.
If the ground is new, and YOU can poison
the squirrels, you may plant where you
wish to raise your fence. Drop the seeds
about an inch apart. cuItivale easefiIlv5 till
autumn, when it will be safer to mulch with
long manure, straw or chatf, on each side
of the hedge. 10 a90T1
Il is generally, however, better TO plant
the seeds in beds one year previous to COM
menclng the fence. The ground should
always be thoroughly pulverized previous
g planting and the plants must be kept
clean and well cultivated. 1t is safer TO
rinse or lift the plants in the fall. and pack
IN q cellar or some place where the root will
not freeze. It pays pretty well to raise
plants At two dollars a thousand, if you can
get good seeds, and will lake proper care :;
but If there is anything that won't pay to
AdT do, is hedge raising, especially if you
commence With the seed. But. as plants
can be obtained for two doIiSrs per thou
sand would advise farmers to- purchase
the plants. from the fact that all the work
ot plant raising must be done in T. e1 corn
raising season. and you are apt to ne'glec;
one or the ether, which issuot economy.
The ground where the fence is to stan l
should be prepared by blowing deep about
eight ieet wide, leaving fqrrow where the
plants are to De set :; harrow and roll care
fully, and then when ready to plant, draw
strong twiue along, about eighteen inches
high, aad set with spade, putting the
plants at an angle of about twenty degrees
from perpendicular. A man using the spade, |
and boy (if carefully. are best to put IN the
plants two plants to each spade width
Pl>ce the plants from FIVE to six inches apart.
The plants should be put in Zone in each |
the aid Of another hand, to set stakes, put
up the lines. and tramp the soil on the
plants. the three will plant from half mile
to a mile in a day. so that nearly every plant
will grow, If the plants are good-and you
should be careful to get none but good ones.
I am aware that many plant with what is
called hand -dibble, planting perpendicu-
larly, and much faster, and if the season is
wet it may do very we'll but am con-
WINGED that the first plan is much the
cheaper in the end, having tried them both.
The principal reason is, that you have much
the best chance to press the soil on the
roots which will have effect of keeping the
dampness much longer.
The roots should all be trimmed off to an
equal length, about eight inches, and each
bunch of hundred dipped in thin batter,
male of mixture of black loan, COW dung
and water. 1t is generally better to plant
previous to corn planting, but have bad
them do we'll when planted in June. The
first of May is much better, however, and
it is of the utmost importance the plants
should all grow. Cultivate carefully three
or four feet each side the row, and weed
out by hand the first year or two. If the
ground is fiat, plow towards the plants, so
that no water will stand near the plants;
and if the ground is wet. it would be an
advantage to have a mole ditch run along
near the fence, for the plants are liable to
winter kill. The winters scarcely ever
hurt the plants in this, latitude, on dry
ground; even the first winter after planting,
land never to my knowledge after the first
season, but that risk can be ,obViated by
mulchiDg with manure. or straw.
Ii is of the utmost importance that cat
tie, &C., should be kept off them, especially
after the first Of August, until the ground
is frozen, as it requires but little trampling
at that time to kill them. If from any cause
there are as many as one-third of your plants
killed the spring after planting. it Is better
to pillow them up and plant anew, but II
there are only few missing. be sure and
replant the first spring after planting. AT
ter some experimenting and considerable
observation, am convinced that tits use
less TO cut more than once each year, unless
you wish to stunt your fence. Cut close to
the ground the first season, and four or hye
inches high the second; and if any plants
are missing, bend others down across the
zap, and twist them together, for there Is
little use of replanting at that age. Cut
some six inches higher each year. until
your fence is strong enough and thick
enough to turn anything, which will not
generally be much under six years, unless
You cultivate carefully. However. now
have one hundred rods of fence, which was
planted in seed three years ago last spring.
which will turn AM tbing, good part OF it,
no matter what, but it was planted thick IN
double rows, and carefully taken care OF. l
nrefer using plants instead of seed, because
You are surer of getting full stand, and
there is less trouble to keep clean. prefer
a single row to double one, because it
costs less, and is not half the trouble to cul-
tivate.
~ The trimming should always be done ear
" in spring, for if cut after the buds are
out, it stunts the plants. If the plants are
set as close as three or four inches apart
they viii make fence sooner than at SIX
inches, but does not make any better fence,
II as good, When set 100 close 1T is as well
to leave it without cutting until two years
old, and will be thiek enough with TWO cut
tings-or three. at most.
have no faith in Osier Willow, Tor any
> thing else without thorns,) making a fence
that will turn cattle when breachy, but the
Usage Orange will turn anything.
j. D. PORTER.
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