Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-09-14

slovenly in keeping up to the impera-,
tive call of every farm duty and work.
How few, If there was anecesyity there.
for, would clip their miles OF hedges.
But the Usage is just sensitive enough
to our northern frosts to make capital
enclosure for the naagnifi cent prairies
without much doctoring. The country
abounds In first class hedges that eight
years ago We're thin, full of gaps, and
showed but skeleton Of fence. They
have thickened up, the winter has
pruned them at the top, and without ex-
pense and labor they have become per-
feet hedges. Az long as the root con-
tinues alive, prairie fires and low tenn
peratures may combine in vain to rem
der the Osage UNIT for a fence. 1t will
shoot up every year, the green branches
Intervening with the stiff, spiny dead
ones, making the hedge more unappro-
achable and dangerously formidable. ol
The Usage Orange is destined to bc
the Hedge plant for tho North West.
Within ten years, Northern Illinois,
Iowa, and Wisconsin will show tho
traveller only in rare instances the
spectacle Of an expensive rail- or board
fence. The immense quantities Of seed
distributed and sown last spring gerni-
mated handsomely, and there will be
great surplus of plants thrown upon
the market. The expense of making a
safe and permanent hedge of the Usage
will not exceed fifty cents per rod.
We recommend to every farmer, as the
market is plentifully supplied with
plants, to prepare his grounds at once,
by plowing n strip eight feet wide
around his fields, so that he can be
ready to set the plants in the spring.
by proper mulching and covering with
straw or dirt, the Usage can be success.
fully grown In as high a latitude as 43o.
1t may kill down to the protection for
two years; but it acquires hardihood
with age. It Is not to be supposed that
the Usage will stand, or anything else
save the White Willow, In low places,
where water stands and ice IL formed
all winter. The roots will winter-kill
in bogs and sloughs; but on level prai.
rie and high ground, 1t is the best and
quickest hedge plant In cultivation.
Experience and observation have cs-
tablished, In my own mind, certain
conclusions: @ . .is..... ...-.8T "
l. II Is useless to cultivate grapes,
hoping to receive profit for your invest
ment, without giving them, whatever
their reputation for hardness, a thick
covering of earth for winter protection.
Earth is preferable to straw or any 9TH
er light covering. .a 40 s....rI a.fg q.
/ 2. Warm, rainy seasons are sure to
be followed by serious losses In nursery
stock and fruit trees. Seedlings should
be taken up and put in cellars; and
vines and shrubbery, out doors, should
receive a more careful shield from the
weather. f.tgu. '
3. 1t 10 false idea that npple-trees,
raised from the seed, are more likely to
be hardy, and to resist cold better than
gratis. The man who aims to get a
hardy orchard from seedlings, will fail
oftener than the man who selects graft.
ed trees. Hgr.- a. ..att.a.r .uaa
A. Osage Orange plants, the first
season, should be taken up in the fall
assorted, bound In bundles, and bur.
ried in sand In the cellar. IL left out
Of doors, with no protection, nine
tenths are destroyed before spring.
s. Usage Orange hedges, the second
year, should be cut down six inches
from the ground in October, covered
with wild hay for mulch, and o fur
row of dirt thrown upon 1t to keep out
the changes Of the weather. ,u ..4It
6. There are uarieties of fruit trees
that will stand rainy and hot seasons,
make late succulent growths, and en-
dure also temperature as low as this
latitude ever experienced. He is a for
tunato man who plants understand
ingly. .i a.a..l.srfl.r,I a.,. -ss.es. 4,