Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-12-31
Usage HEDGES.

EDIrt ms RECORDER In mapy parts
Of our land timber is so scarce that peo-
ple arc compelled to resort to hedges as
a mesus Of protection to their lands and
crops. In timber regions they are less
inclined to adop, hedging; but We firm
" bellows ,hs. this is tho cheapest, best,
and most beautiful Of enclosing male
rial aud when once tried, will always be
practiced. Many arc tetefred from set
tug hedge, believing it troublesome,
expensive aud unsatisfactory. To the
5 Law, careless, slip .shod man, those re-
suits will very sure follJw any Efforts at
hedging; but au industrious, wide-
awake, thrifty man, who will follow
simple advice, thorough success will
Gown his effo, IL mattrs not how
plenty timber u, d stone uay be; 1t
hal ave hundred or FIVE thousand acres
To pus under new feUce, or old fenee to
repair, | should certainly build hedge.
Osage is best in all climates where the
Thermometer does not fall below twenty
degrees; when it is colder, BuckIhorn.
There q several modes If setting recon-
mendcd, some Of which are difficult 10
llearn-ali OF which are tedious. pro-
nose 10 give your readers simple nude,
aud tho best have ever seen tried.
While it i, some better to prepare the
hcgde bod along tho line by decp 2low-
ing tae Fall before tho Spring setting,
still. il it has been neglected, pillow a
few days before you begin to set. Plow
down a furrow, and back in tho famc,
throwing tho soil iuto tho fence row,
until you have ploughed bed i've OF
six feet wide vide. Harrow this well,
aud YOU are then ready for planting
Take stout line one hundred and hfty
feet long, stretch it in the centre Of the
bed, and 20 along it with hos and dig
a trench about Two inches deep the full
length of the line. Now take your
plants, (haviug FIRST assorted them intt
three different kinds, first, second and
third clAss,) and let one man 60 along
and drop hem about eight inches apart
and still another man follow and, witt
his hands, cover up the roots, holding
the plants in an upright position. =
When the line is done, let both met
pass back, with a foot on each side o.
the row, close together. This will set
tie thu dir. we'll about the roots. Their
pass tsc. with hoes, and rake loose dir
up TO the plants, so as TO leave the TOT
sob around the plants loose.
Keep down all weeds, and keep the
p dirt loose all the Summer and Fal
around tie hedge, and you will scarcely
lose dozen plants in q thousand. Ii
the alter culture Of the hedge We pre-
sumo ell men know what 10 es,ential.--
Briefly, however, we say--the following
Spring, early. cut down close to the
ground and cultivate with hoe or pillow
a. before. The next year, in Spring
cut down to one foot high, and the mex
year, two feet, the next three feet, th'
next four, the next five feet, and his i
high as any hedge should be ALLOWED
TO grow, unless you want screen. l
so, after the fourth year, let your bedg
run out at top aud keep only the side
trimmed. Never resort to Summer o
Fa,l pruning. In four or five years yol
will have fence that will turn man o.
beast OF any size, and it will last fo
years without repair. If some plant,
die tho first year, Gas some will il
October Of that year select some of tn,
strongest plants from your seed bed aut
replace the dead ones, cutting of clos
to the ground those more thrifty plant
on each side If the one reset. 1t viii
be seen that no spade or dibble or othe
contrivance is essential by this mode
and ample experience and long observa
tiou have taught me that none is nece'
sary. Around orchards and plsasur
grounds especially these hedges are in
portrait ~ they keep out pilferers an
losfsrs more effectuaIly than any o,he
fence, aud tend to SHIELD them frol
wintry blasts. IL. I. II.