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fences. In a few years I expect they will bring me a great many liiiu- 

 dred dollars. 



However, I was speaking of the law that should be removed from the 

 statute books. I refer to the law that says you can not plant a hedge 

 fence between your farm and your neighbor's farm, or, if you do, you 

 must cut it down to five feet in height. I am in favor of having that 

 law removed. We should have a better law than that in reference to 

 partition fences. No better law can be put upon our statute books than 

 to allow each man to plant his part of the line fence in a hedge if he 

 wishes. If I have a line fence of 200 rods between my neighbor on the 

 right and myself, I want to be allowed to plant my hundred rods of it 

 with hedge fence if I wish. I have gone along the line and planted a 

 hedge fence and stretched wires along this. Some people try to use the 

 hedges for fences without anything else, and then say they are a failure 

 because they will not keep the hogs and cattle in. 



Then take the highways of the country. You will notice, if you travel 

 about, that most of the hedge fences are being removed. If we can get 

 a law passed that will allow a man to build his partition fences right 

 to the line, think of the great Osage orange hedges that will soon spring 

 up. And they will be found the most profitable thing you can plant on 

 your farm. I calculate that in a period of fifteen years these hedge 

 fences will pay me fifteen dollars an acre. The average farmer can not 

 conceive of the expense posts will be in the future, and, as our brother 

 has said, thex'e is nothing like a hedge post. In twelve years I am going 

 to have good, thick posts by planting the hedges in two rows, breaking 

 joints. You can look at my hedges, and every two or three feet you 

 will see a splendid post. 



Mr. Ilenby: I see that some prominent professors in Ohio say the 

 Osage orange hedge is the worst harbor for San .lose scale and other 

 insects. They say the birds distribute the scale over the country from 

 these hedges, and claim they are one of the main sources from Avhich the 

 insects are distributed. They do not confine their condemnation to Eng- 

 lish sparrows; they say all kinds of birds are distributing these insects. 



Mr. Amos Garretson: Professor Freeman spoke of a solution with 

 which to spray the maple trees for the borers. Would that spray be 

 dangerous to use on the peach and apple trees? 



Mr. Freeman: It will not hurt any tree. Of course, you need only 

 spray the body of the tree. If you will send to the Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C, they will send you a publication on insecti- 

 cides and sprays. 1 would like to have a number of you give me your 

 names for the publication I have mentioned. 



The Osage orange is all right. It is as good a tree for posts as you 

 can get; so is the catalpa, but that is not a question of forestry. We 



