Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-06-19
For THE HERALD.
A TRIP TO FREDERICK.


A TRIP TO FREDERICK.
Monday your correspondent made
a trip to Frederick, in company with
Messrs. John E. Boyd, j. T. MAIDEN
boush, A. j. Thomas, G. w. Buxton,
B. f. Fiery and U. S. Grant Pitzer,
mostly interested in the Shenandoah
Valley Hedge Fence Co. At Har-
per's Ferry we were more joined by
Messrs. s. A. Duling, G.. G. Thomas,
w. V. Green, ]. l.. Davis, S. S. Thorn
as, P. Mccormack, DIR. G. E. Lippett,
G.. w. Gordon and p. HI. Powers,
farmers, of Clarke Co.. Va. They
were a jolly good crowd, determined
to learn something of hedge fence
and its practicability, After break
fast at the City House, we visited the
Office of the Maryland Hedge and
Wire Fence Co., where we met Mr..
G. l.. Cramer, who very kindly eX-
planned how that company did bust
ness. We found him a very polite
gentleman, who is doing successful
business. Mr.. S. A. Duling, Capt. of
the Host, took command. Maj. Dull
ing is big man, head, heart and
body, fleet excepted,) and piled our
company all over a four-horse hack.
We then visited the farm of Mr.. Cra-
mer, just outside the city. The farm
has an air of neatness and substantial
ity about it. Here we found large
line of fence just planted and grow
ing nicely. We also found a fence
five or six years old, which was re-
garded as useless, but was this spring
FLASHED with wire and trimmed and
now presents neat appearance and
is stock-proof. Mr.. Cramer is replace
ing all his fences with hedge. We
next visited fifteen acre field where
the plant was being cultivated like
corn, having been drilled in the fall,
two hundred thousand of which are
raised to the acre, then taken up and
tied in bundles and buried till spring.
At the farm of Col. w. o. Denegre
we saw fence seventeen years old,
growing thirty feet high, part of
which was two years ago cut down to
A feet and FLASHED, and now makes
fence almost rabbit proof. He has
a beautiful country seat about one
mile from town, with a prospective
looking over the valley and city,
making a perfect panorama. He
farms in an intelligent way on huge
scale. cutting and grinding all his
feed for his cattle by machinery run
by steam and located in his barn.
His herd of Attorneys and Jerseys
are beauties. His residence was erect
ed before the Revolution, of material
brought from England, and looks to
be new. 1t was formerly owned by
one named Dulaney, tory, who had
to quit the country. We next wit
messed the operation of trimming a
rough and ragged fence. Mr.. d. J..
Corbin neatly trimmed As feet on
both sides in three minutes, giving
practical demonstration that a farm
er can trim the fence on an ordinary
farm in a day or two, but this must
be done in the spring, and when done
his fence is complete for the year.
We then returned to the City House
where we were shown every atten-
ton by the proprietor, and hungry
set were satisfied with a first-class
dinner. After dinner our company
spent an hour with Mr.. j. ID. Baker
in his rooms. We found him a gen.
ial, warm-hearted man. Mr.. Baker
is one of Frederick's first business
men, and although president of two
banks, he takes very active part in
the hedge fence BUSINESS and believes
in its future success. He is the pro-
prietor of the Baker lime works at
Martinsburg. After a day of busy
pleasure, we arrived safely home,
satisfied that the farmer only needs
to see the hedge fence properly
handled to adopt it. 1t is beyond
doubt the most durable, useful and
economical fence, and is the fence of
the future, being an ornament as well.
We believe the Martinsburg Hedge
Fence Co. must succeed with the men
now at its head. Mr.. J. B. Wilson,
Cashier of the Peoples Bank, and
president of the company, is a
recognized business man.
P. A. r.