Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-07-28
AN EXCELLENT FENCE
m ABE BY TIE NATIONAL HEDGE AND
WIRE FENCE coAeANY OF YORK.
a Usisg siion OF Lancaster ana Hosk Fsrmsrs
visw II in Operation ON . chester County
Farm ana Owe IL . warm rssti-
mon,ai FOR Various q God Points.

visw II In Operation ON . Chester County
Farm ana owe IL . warm rssti-
mental FOR Various q God Points.
1t was the good fortune Of representa-
tive Of the INTRLLIaENcRR on Wednes-
day last July %, TO accompany dele
cation OF the best farmers Of Lancaster ana
York counties to the beautiful village oil
Whitford, Chester county, some forty miles
east Of this city.
The party wss org aniz ID by the officers
ef the National Hedge and Wire Fence
company, of'-York, Pa, and was urder
tho immediate care of DR.. K. II. Neimap,
general manager, assisted by william
Hohreip, agent for York county, and Q.
M. Claflin, agent for Lancaster county.
The object OF the company wss to show the
representative farmers OF the Two counties
above named the new method OF making
hedge fence, IS prscticed by the York
company.
Arrived at Whitford, the visitors We. Q
taken directly to the farm Of Robist n q
Shoemaker, near by, where they were
shown an OsAge orange hedge and wire
fence about sixty rods In length, and not
quite four ftet In height The width Of the
fence from one side to the other was not
more than tee inches, being slightly less at
the top than the bottom, snd covered On.
tirely with a luxurisnt growth OF green
foliage. 1t was 30 close that no kind Of
stock could get through II, and 1t would
puzzle bird 20 find q passage through it,
branches.
In answer tn inquiries Mr. X )pis N told
the Wis, ors that where the present hedge
sto1d there had been one planted In the
old. fashioned way about fifteen years ago
1t was never stock tight, and had become
auch nuisance that he was going to have
II grubbed up and replaced with post and
rail- fence, when he was met by one of the
parties interes ed In the new method and
reluctantly allowed him to try his hand on
1t, the hedge. builder promising TO mako q
tight fence Of It, The struggling branches
Of the old canes we're all cut away and the
canes cut down until they were less than
three feet high. Opsn spaces were flled
In with new plants All the plants, old
and new, we're bent over to an angle OF
forty-fve degrees, aud they were wired
together with two or three lines OF strong
wire. This was done only thirteen months
ego, and now he has a fence so perfectly
tight that a man can scarcely push his
walking stick through It
THE METHOD DESCRIBED.
Meanwhile Mr.. Ciaflin was auswering
numerous questions ami giving details o.
to the method OF making the new hedges,
which he said could be made better from
young plants than by taking an old hedge
like Mr.. Robison's. Said he 4: When the
young plants are of sufficient sIzs, say an
average of an inch or an inch and a quar-
ter, we trim the cane on all sides, clean of
all branches We then remove the earth
from the roots OF the plants on both sides
we then bend the plant In the root, and in
cline the stalk at an an gle OF about 45 de-
grees and secure them In this p 1sition by
fastening them firmly with wires we then
cut the tops OIL ths plants at the Insight de-
sired and thus form a solid and compact
fence, which will resist any attack from
stock. Iu fiexiblity is just eufhcient 10
prevent 1t from breaking, and Its strength
is manifold greater than q fence which
cannot yield to an attack. From this com.
pact frame.work new growth will put
forth In great profuson the entire length Of
the canes twining through the lattice work
formed by canes and wire, and thus form
beautiful network, sufficiently dense to
turn the smallest stock"
M. Claflin ex planned a. oonsidera BILE
length the method of dwarfing the Usage
orange 40 that 1t never sttains q much
greater size than the hedge shown the
method OF planting, Gu tivatlou, plashing,
pruning, cost OF hedging and other details.
As to pruning, which is done with pecu.
liar sort OF knife made Tor the purpose, he
esld he could prune sixty rods in sky
m nutes As TO the cost OF m ,king q new
hedge, the company finds the Plauts, sets
them and takes care OF them the first year
for % cents per rod 25 cents the second
aud third year, and SO cents the fourth year
making $l.25 per rod, when the fence is
turned over to the farmer in stock
proof condition. This Is cheaper than
. board or post aud Isl fence. and has
this advantage: While the board and post
and rail- fence begin 10 decay In four or five
years and finally rot, the hedge-fence,
which Is easily taken care OF, becomes
better and better every year from genera
tion to generation.
a TESTIMONIAL,
After dining at the residence of Mr..
Samuel Henry whose farm sdjoins Mr..
Robison's, the company presented the tol.
lowing testimonial:
WHITFoRD, CHESTER COUNTY.
July 25, 1883.
The under signed farmers OF Lancaster
end York counties, having this day exam.
ined, upon invitation OF the National Hedge
and Wire Fence company OF York, over 100
rods of Ossgs orange fence, 60 OF which
were wire, on the farm OF Robson *
Shoemaker, of Whitehill township, are free
to declare thst this hedge, grown and wired
as exhibited here, makes handsome and
excellent guard against live stock aud
poultry-sither for keeping In an enclosure
or guarding against outside assault. We
are convinced that properly cared for, 1t
will be stock proof, and we are equally
satisfied, from what we have seen, that
crops may be planted as Close to 1t as to an y
other fence, and that neither its roots nor
its shade will Interfere with the cultivation
of the ground. 1t affords us pleasure to
rec )mmend this hedge as the neatest, most
effective and altogether the most desirable
fence In the market, 30 far as our expert
ence and observation have extended.
Augustus Leader, York.
Joseph Leader York.
John A. Burger, Spry.
Morgan d, Rife, A bbsttslown.
George Lightuer, York.
John Ness, York.
Abrsm Hershey, weigl s.own.
Henry RebmaD, York.
VIM, Herman, York.
Emanuel Herman, York.
Hiram Young, York.
Joseph Bates, Spry.
Andrsw Miller, York.
John Koblsr, Keys.
John Bush, Davidsburg
Henry Cosley, Keys.
Philip Metzsl, York.