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will eat it, even though the other stock don't. "We must be sure to plant 

 the right kind. A sentence that was in the paper said that we want to 

 be very careful not to cut off the roots of the trees as they are delicate 

 and sensitive. I will tell you that one of these trees will lie on top of 

 the ground for two or three months, and then will grow just as well as 

 if it had been planted the day it was dug iip. As to its durability I do 

 not know from experience. I would recommend the osage. 



Mr. Apple: I would like to know what you know about the durability 

 of sassafras fence posts 



Mr. Burton: Mr President, every child down in our region knows that 

 the sassafras sprout lasts longer than he wants it to, but as a fence post 

 it is not any better than black walnut; it will rot off in three of four 

 years. When one is just in the ri^ht condition it may last for some time. 

 I took down a windmill that had been standing on locust posts for 

 nineteen years. Those posts were taken up and not replaced, and it was 

 very difhcult to tell which end had been in the ground. Locust certainly 

 will last. Probably these posts were thoroughly seasoned before they 

 went into the ground. My idea of a post is something else than wood. 

 I think an iron post would be good, and the cement post is undergoing 

 investigation, and if it proves a success we will have no more use for 

 catalpa or osage posts, because we will then have an everlasting post. 



Mr. Swaim: I would like to ask how they attach windmills to posts in 

 your part of the country? 



Mr. Burton: By bolts run through the post, 



Mr. Sw.nim: Couldn't you tell by the bolthole which end iiad been in 

 the ground 



President Stevens: Probably tlie liolthole had rotted out. 



A Member: I think one point has been overlooked. All of this wood 

 should be seasoned well before using. 1 was told this, and I cut my posts 

 for a fence a year before I \\as going to use them. When I was building 

 my fence I found that I needed more than I had and I cut some green 

 ones that only laid a month before being used. These green ones rotted 

 off at the ground, whik- the seasoned ones are as good as they were tlie 

 day they were put in. 



Sylvester Johnson: I wish to offer the following resolution: 



Resolved, That the President iuul Secretary of this Society be author- 

 ized hereby to execute and dolivor to the State of Indiana a proper con- 

 veyance of the lands in Lawrence County, Indiana, constituting the 

 experimental farm belonging to this Society, for the purpose of obtaining 



