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American Agriculturist, May 5,1923 
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Concerning Hedgerows 
*^And The Stone Wall Thereof Was Broken Down'^ 
«T| WENT by the*field Bv T. VAN WAGENEN. TR. them is becoming 
JUof the slothful and wonderfulh 
by the vineyard of the man void of 
understanding and, lo, it was all over¬ 
grown with thorns, and nettles had 
covered the face thereof, and the stone 
wall thei’eof, was broken down. Then 
I saw and considered it well: I looked 
upon it and 
received instruc¬ 
tion.” — Solomon 
the Wise. 
The bygone 
masters of Hill¬ 
side Farm be¬ 
queathed to us 
along with the 
old fields some 
miles of ramb¬ 
ling ^ stone walls. 
I remember the 
P e nnsylvania 
farmer who de¬ 
clared concerning 
his farm that “if 
all the dirt was 
salt and all the 
wonderfully large. 
My father’s memory ran back well 
before the middle of the last century 
and he told me that never within his 
time had any considerable number of 
rails been split on our farm. I feel 
sure that nearly all of them are at 
least a hundred years old and all that 
time they have lain out through summer 
heat and winter tempest. They are 
gray and bleached without. But with¬ 
in, they are as bright and fragrant as 
when the pioneers rove them in the 
days when the last century was very 
young. I wonder if we—you and I — 
are doing anything on our farms to-day 
that will cause men to remember us 
and to speak of us with tenderness a 
hundred years from now. 
What wonderful wood that old pine 
was, light, elastic, fragrant, time-defy¬ 
ing, with a grain like satin ribbon. We 
shall never see the like again. An oak 
rail sags in the middle and becomes 
crooked and warped with the years but 
a pine rail remains to the end as 
T VAN WAPFNFN TR stonc was poi’k. Straight as an arrow and as elastic as 
’ ‘ there wouldn’t be a steel spring. I am told that there is 
salt enough to save the pork.” I pass 
this on as a happy example of whim¬ 
sical exaggeration. Well—Hillside Farm 
was never as bad as that. It was never 
stony as compared with many New 
England fields or with much of that 
belt of farm land that makes up the 
borders of the Adirondacks but it was 
at least sprinkled with “hard-heads,”— 
granite boulders brought down from 
the northeast by the glacial ice-sheet 
so that most of our fields were fenced 
with stone walls. 
My father used to tell me that in his 
youth it was regarded as a rather 
absolutely no satisfactory substitute for 
white pine for pattern making and that 
this use alone will ultimately consume 
our reserve supply of this noble wood. 
What a pitiful remnant of our one-time 
forest remains in the eastern States. 
How we have squandered our imperial 
heritage. But after all we cannot 
blame our forefathers because for the 
first two centuries of American settle¬ 
ment men could regard trees only as 
enemies to be gotten rid of in every 
possible fashion. The greater part of 
the best of our eastern- forests were 
never utilized. They were felled in 
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The Stone Wall—One of the monuments to the patient labor of our 
forefathers. 
fortunate fact that oup farm “had stone 
enough to fence it.” Today I cannot 
but stand in wonder and admiration at 
the stupendous toil that went into those 
walls. Not only were the surface stone 
gotten out of the way but as far as 
possible all that interfered with the 
plow were dug and pried out- and 
hauled to the walls, often by two ox- 
teams hitched tandem. Very many of 
them were first blasted with black 
powder long before the days of dyna¬ 
mite. 
One of the very earliest recollections 
of my farm boyhood is James Barker 
patiently using the churn drill, taking 
several hours to get a hole a foot in 
depth, then loading it with powder, 
tamping it down with the dust from 
the drilling and firing it with the old 
uncertain fuse. I think a day was 
frequently given to the job of getting 
a single stone broken up enough so 
that it could be handled with a couple 
of teams. In those days there were 
not lacking men skilled in the rough 
masonry of laying stone walls. 
Some of the walls on our farm were 
high enough so that nothing on top 
was needed but many of them were 
“staked-and-ridered” with pine rails. 
The farm once had thousands of these 
ancient rails and there are a good 
many of them left yet. But I note with 
sorrow that, like the veterans of the 
Civil War, the annual death-rate among 
windrows, the fire run through the 
fallen mass, and then the blackened 
trunks drawn together in great heaps 
for the burning. The mo^ inconceiv¬ 
able thing is how in the world a 
heavily wooded country was ever con¬ 
quered for the plow. 
Well, these musings have come about 
because during the last two weeks 
most of our spare time (if there is 
ever any such thing as “spare time” 
on a farm) has been devoted to getting 
rid of one of the long stretches of stone 
wall that my grandfathers piled up. 
From time to time we try to tackle this 
sort of a job because with modern mach¬ 
inery large fields are more important 
than of old, and because in the end, all 
stone walls tend to fall down and re¬ 
vert to hedgerows such as Solomon 
was thinking about in the quotation 
which stands at the head of this article. 
Then, too, dui’ing the years we have 
had the bad habit of picking off the loose 
stone and throwing them in a windrow 
against the base of the wall because it 
was the easiest way to get rid of them. 
The worst enemy of stone walls is 
the heaving of the frost and because it 
draws out first on the sunny side while 
the shaded side remains frozen, our 
stone walls tend to topple over to the 
south at thi.s time of year. A fallen 
stone wall not only ceases to serve its 
original purpose but J«'omes merely a 
refuge for woodchu|||^fciid a propogat- 
