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plashing system, to obtain the same object, has been found much better 

 and more effectual, and it is attended with much less labor. 



To plash the hedge, begin at one end and cut the first plant half off, 

 on the side towards the next plant and close to the ground, and bind it 

 down to the ground in a line with the hedge, and from the next plant. 

 Cut the next in the same way and lay it down in like manner on the first, 

 and so on, twining the branches together so as to keep each plant laid 

 down as near in a horizontal position as possible. Each stump and each 

 body thus laid down will throw out shoots all along the hedge, making 

 a perfect network of canes and thorns from the ground up, so thick that 

 no bird, rabbit, or large animal can get through. 



Having thus laid the foundation, the hedge can be trimmed and kept 

 in such shape thereafter as the fancy or interest of the owner may 

 suggest. After cutting and trimming it back until formed into as strong 

 and good shaped hedge as may be desired, it will do no harm to allow it 

 to grow up pretty high, and thus answer as a wind-breaker and a fenco 

 at the same time. 



OSAGE ORANGE HEDGES FOR OVERFLOWED LANDS. 



The tenacity with which this plant adheres to life, and its ability, like 

 the willow, to stand without injury long continued overflows, leads the 

 writer to believe that it may be used for making fenees in the tule lands 

 of the State; of course, the land for some distance on each side of such 

 hedges will have to be plowed and kept clear from tules, so as to prevent 

 fires from destroying them, when the tules are dry and liable to burn. 



The writer intends to test this question by experiment this season, and 

 hopes that others may do the same; for if the idea is practical, it is worth 

 a gueatdcal of money to those owning land bordering and extending into 

 the tule. 



No other fence can be made in these lands of a permanent and reliable 

 character, as the water will wash out the posts and float the fence away. 



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