Growing an Osage Orange Hedge Fence
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- Osage orange hedge fences were popular in 1900. Tells how they grew a row of Osage to twelve feet high, then cut half-through each one and bend them down sideways to overlap and form a tight fence that kept out horses, cows, sheep, and most hogs.