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Show . The Osage Orange We , observe quite an interest among some 'of the citizens of our city to grow the osage orange for a fence. Now, to make a good fence as also a thing of beauty, you want to start just 'right, and this is the way to do it. First prepare your ground as you would if you was planting any other crop and was exsnecting to raise a good crop. Don't think you can dig a hole in the salt grass sod and put in either the seed or the plant a year old and leave it at that and think you will get a good growth and soon have a nice fence, for just as sure as you do this you will be disappointed and will have your plants, if they grow at all, small and smothered up with salt grass and very small and scrubby growth, and you will soon get disheartened; dis-heartened; but having well prepared prepar-ed your ground put your plants about 8 to 10 inches apart in the row, water and cultivate as you would any other crop, and when your plants are . a foot high, cut them back 5 or 8 inches and when they have grown up again to a foot, cut them back to about 9 inches, leaving about 3 inches of - the growth, and keep it up this way and you will have a fence that will be chicken proof, and proof against every reasonable thing by the time it is 4 years old, as also a " thing of beauty. If you wish to see such a fence that is already started, just go down to the Temple Block and on the north of tho lot and at the west end of that fence line, you will see just what you want, as Bro. Bennett has got one started there, that is a splendid pattern to go by, and those who have already or may wish to start such a fence, will do well to go and see it for themselves, them-selves, f |