History of Woodford County Giving a Brief Account of Its Settlement Organizat
History of Woodford County Giving a Brief Account of Its Settlement Organizat
B J Benjamin Johnson Radford
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The splitting and hauling of rails was a work of great labor, but a good rail fence was a substantial and durable affair. In late years the farmers have turned their attention to the growing of hedges, and many experiments have been made with plants of various sorts. The only thing which so far has been generally adopted is the osage orange, a native plant, which grows, under favorable circumstances, to a height of sixty feet. The wood is elastic and fine-grained, and was much used by the India...ns for bows. The fruit is about the size and somewhat the appearance of an orange. It has a juicy and wholesome pulp, but is not much relished as an article of food, having an uninviting taste and odor. The HISTORY OF WOODFORD COUNTY. 43 scarcity of stone forbids its use as a fencing material. The early implements of husbandry were of the rudest sort, and the methods slow and laborious. The first plows used in Wood ford County were little better than those in use in Asia twenty -five hundred years ago ; for they had then wooden plows with iron shares, and these were the only sort known to our fathers fifty years ago.
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