Show AD hii 14 HAYS hahs NN A YS SHOULD BE ornamental K I 1 I 1 nde ader r the above head the couet delineates the way that at our ur highways k are ornamented as fo follows lows it A aa great improvement would be made n the dp appearance of the whore country if f our public highways were planted with ornamental trees and kept innear in neat condition like landscape gardens the laws aws of the state of new york passed in 1862 excluding domestic animals from public roads renders this of comparatively ively easy attainment they need not now be rooted up or disfigured by swine nor polluted by the droppings of catt cattle cattie ae trees need not be injured or killed by animals rubbing n gd a against them roadsides should beren be rendered e red smooth in surface both for the purpose of improving beir their appearance and rendering them capable of being easily mowed with the scythe or mowing mewing machine ma chine the hay thus obtained will be more valuable than the pasture if cut but once or twice in a season they must be cut oftener if desired to maintain a high polish like that of a finished lawn were this treatment adopted generally in any considerable portion or district of country it would not only render farms of a higher value in market but would have a civilizing and refining influence on the community we are sorry to observe iii in many places that highways are regarded as receptacles for all kinds of rubbish and refuse matter we recently had occasion to ride through one of the streets of a large largo village reported as one of the neatest and most respectable in the state in a distance of thirty rods roda in lu length we observed the following materials which we copy from a memorandum oum dum made on the spot dirt from a cellar coal ashes straw from beds rotted pieces of plank a broken sawhorse a defunct wheelbarrow rotten cabbage and cabbage stumps trimmings of trees rose hoop skirts stones thrown out butof of an adjacent aa jacent adjacent garden barrel hoops boots and shoes and old tin pans bent in all shapes by passing wheels A ride through the country was scarcely less inte interesting one farmer had piled along the roadside the trimmings of his apple orchard amounting n in all to several wagon loads loads among w which agi ch burdocks murdocks bur docks and nettles had hal had grown up in profusion another had made a long pile of cord wood the preceding winter a part of which had fallen when the snow melted and obstructed the track another had carted out a load of old plaster and broken lath and discharged in addition into the middle middie of the track a large pile of rotten potatoes ind and nd the fourth for the purpose of econ economizing 0 m iz in land hadnet had set his barn on the tho dge d e of the road so as to make mal mai e his barnyard ya I 1 in it and had then variously filled 6 with fractured wagon wheels dismantled carts rusty plows decayed rollers superannuated harrows piles of old boards scattered cord wood sleds with broken runners empty barrels an carted manure aud some old boxes we passed to another neighborhood where the people had from the first enforced the cattle law the roa roads ds were smooth and neat trees had been planted along their margin the grass had been mowed for hay apart of which had bad been drawn off leaving the sides of the barriage carriage way smooth and green and in other places the hay yet remained in tocks locks although there was still room for considerable improvement it was not difficult to decide which neighborhood would be chosen by any purchaser of a farm or would bring the highest price villages of all places in the world should hould nol not bo be infested by animals running lug ing at lar large ge we have recently made a careful estimate of ahe the amount of pasturage urage in one of the villages of this pasturage state gast ta with which we have been familar fam ilir i the ithe aggregate 0 length of its streets 1 is about two fi miles files the only grass grow ing in g in them is a strip artrip averaging about four feet fe et wide on each side of the car ear and between the latter and the filaggi flagging sarte n 0 or r eight feet in for each street t the more active business streets hayo haye no grass eight feet wide and two miles long forms an area equal to two acres aeres s not better than one acre of good par pah pasturage urage in order that a few vagrant cattle cattler might violit gnaw this thin grass the following inconveniences es were submitted to before the cattle were excluded the constant watching of at least one hundred garden and dooryard gate gates at all hours of the day and their careful security at night the occasional loss of some same fine patch 0 1 l cabbages cabbage g ili iii som ioor loon noor Toor mans man 1 k ground who could not affeid afford so strong a fence as his neighbors the spattering of the flagging with cow droppings greatly to the annoyance of every well dressed lady and the terror of little children on their way to school at the sight of animal animals on the path the compensation for lii lil all ill this annoyance is one acre of pasturage equal to the k keeping of a single cow it will not he be difficult to say on which side the balance lies the definition of a has been given as a plant growing in the wrong place we want another word to apply to animals running where they ought not a much greater nuisance than weeds as the latter may be removed quietly and without trouble while the former must be watched chased down and excluded at a heavy expense of time strong fences and secure gates costing a thousand per cent more than the whole value of the animals |