My house is about 200' from a used to be rock road and on the North side of a hill. Previous house, built probably back in the '40's for a number, long since demolished when I bought the place, was between my house and the road. When I built it in '79 there were probably half a dozen cars up and down the road at most, and one being the mail carrier. Back in the early 90's the county put a vehicle counter on the road and it registered 150 per day. On the North slope, the only thing between me and the N. Pole were 5 strands of barbed wire. Something had to be done.
Got out my spade and went around the neighborhood collecting Cedars of the size that I could dig up with my spade-shovel and transplant. Wound up with 160. Planted them around my house area with suitable distancing. Today they are maybe 25 or so ft. tall, branches overlapping. Cars probably number 300 easily as road has been sealed (liquid asphalt and rocks), 2 lane marked, 40 mph speed limit, seldom obeyed, and wind still howls from the North in the winter. But on the house side of all that, is bliss! Well worth the effort and would do it again in a heart beat.
Only problem is when they bloom, like now, lots of pollen and runny nose.....but I was willing to tolerate that when I planted them. However, somebody invented the little 10 mg Loratadine anti-histamine tablet that everybody stocks, with zero side effects, unlike previous like remedies, and life is good.
Cedars love blackland alkaline soils and if you don't keep your pastures mowed or cultivated, you will be the proud owner of a forest of your own.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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