Nebraska advertiser., 1868-03-26
Written loS che Advertiser
Hedging.

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say, hoping to become wiser. / endorse
Lafayette" and the man that will
dertake to gainsay or resist the force of
bis argument will be put TO it to succeed,
and nothing but selfish motives could in
duce any one to try. E. H. B. makes
things very plain and shows that he an
derslands the subject that he so ably
handles. He advocates setting plants far
apart. and in that case he would have the
strongest Hedge 10 the shortest time
for, while bis plants would throw their
branches right and left a~bundantly, those
set close will send q few sprouts straight
up. But we must be guided by circum-
stances in order to succeed. We must
remember the fact that we live and ope.
rate in a region Of gOphers, and if they
take out one, two or three plants in. a
place where the space is already wide
enough it would make a wide gap and
hard to ill up, We prefer ten or twelve
inches.
The Hedging COmpany-Of which l.
am the senior parlner-set, on contract,
last Spring, Al miles of hedge, and 6
miles of our own, and prepared about 25
miles for this Springs setting; 10 inches
will be the distance, with but two e1cep.
tions. But Hedgers do not agree and
each thinks he is right; and short time
will enable all to determine who is right.
But my object in this correspondence
is not particularly to instruct farmers how
to make Hedge, but to defend character,
as ours, as business men, appears to be
violently assailed: Your correspondent,
G.. ]. Bryant seems to think it his duty
TO annihilats US, and, perhaps, he thinks
be has done 80. But he has not accom-.
plished much among thinking men, who
generally wait TO hear the defendant be-
fore they pass judgement, or pronounce
the word guilty.
Now, Sir, my ability as a writer and the
space that you could afford me, fOrbids
my noticing all the points where MI. B.,
in his self conceit and prOfessed expert
ence, tries to spread caIumny over the
country, and requests farmers to take his
word for the truth of what be hastearned
from experience. But, though l refer
you to his article on the first page of your
issue Of Feb. 9Th, to read for yourself
his effort to defame, / feel in duty bound
to notice one of his assertions where l
think every man must see at a glance that
be has strayed far from truth and right.
eousness and exposed himself to the rid
icule of your numerous readers. He
says Of Hedgers "frOm what I have seen
they are generally inexperienced in bust
ness, and if they should ever succeed in
making a lawful fence it would then be
worth nearly as much to put it into shape
as it would be to make a new fence
Will any man believe such a statement?
Would Mr.. B. himself, on serious re1ec.
ton and in cool blood, endorse his own
assertion? l think not, Now, let me
state facts. We have not a rod of Hedge
In Nebraska over eleven months old.
Mr.. B. has never seen a rod Of our
fence. We have never told him how we
would finish our fence. But, in the face
Of al these facts Mr.. B. reaches away
for years ahead and tells what our Hedge
will be when it becomes a lawful fence,
and asserts that it will be worth nearly
75cts to put it in shape. Now, let me
ask, does the man profess to be led on by
a spirit Of prophecy? or, has some other
spirit gained the ascendency over him !
Can any man point out a single grain OF
truth in the above quotation! l know
that Mr.. B. felt a little sore /; so did l.
But l am ready to show that his grew
ances were all imaginery, But his m
aglnation has led him into a tight place,
from which he can only escape by ac-
knOwledging that he was excited and
went too far.
1 regret being under the necessity of
noticing the above statement, it looks too
much like returning railing for railing.
But l see no other way left for me under
existing circumstances. MI. B. says we
are inexpeEience, and thinks that expert
ence belongs exclusively to him. He
once made a pretty Hedge; granted.
My father had an interest in the largest
nurseryI ever knew anything of in Europe
and moi yet equalled in Nebraska. I
commenced setting plants in the hedge
row when ten years old, obey were the
Hawthorn making such hedges as Mr..
B. never saw. We raised and set out trees
and shrubs of all kinds occasionally for
the space of seven years. We hedged
some in Illinois. But the war stopped
our operations. as there was no seed in
the market.
But your readers will ask how we get
along here. We answer, we have some
Of the worst and some of the very best
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