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Fences - Osage Orange


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Osage Orange


A type of fence formed from an Osage Orange hedgerow can be seen across the top of the field along Valley Road. A good one was "horse high and hog tight." The annual pruning job is laborious, but necessary to maintain a density of thorney branches.


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