430 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



An advantage in making a post of the same cross-section, say five 

 inches square, is the ease and rapidity of making the molds. Long 

 trough-like molds can be made without sawing and cutting, and by 

 putting in blocks at the G^/o-foot intervals several posts can be made 

 in the one set of molds at the same time. 



The wiring attachment can be arranged in different ways. Holes 

 may be left through the posts at intervals where the fence wire is 

 to be fastened by greased bolts or iron pins placed tlii'ough tlie con- 

 crete and withdrawn when it has begun to set. The fence wire 

 can then be wired through these holes or slips of phmk can ])e bolted 

 to the side of the post through them and the wire attached to the 

 plank. A spike can be left in the concrete at intervals and the fence 

 wire attached to these, or bent pieces of wire, with the ends embedded 

 well into the concrete, the wire forming a loop on the side of the 

 post to which the fence wire may be wired by means of a hog- 

 ringer and rings. 



A better, but possibly a little more expensive, way is to have 

 a bar of iron for each post, about five feet long, one-fourth inch 

 thick by one-half inch wide, and bent the wide way of the bar at each 

 end for about four inches in length, as in Fig. 20. These bent ends 

 can be placed three inches into the green concrete post when it is 

 finished, leaving the body of the bar parallel with and an inch from 

 the face of the post and the broad side to the post. The fence wire 

 can be wired to this iron bar. 



Two men can make 40 to 50 of these posts per day at a cost of 

 30 or 40 cents per post, depending upon the local prices. This price 

 includes the entire cost — forms, labor and all material. The cement 

 alone, which is usually about the only actual cash cost to a farmer, 

 is eight or ten cents per post. 



Patented post form? and fasteners for the wire are also adver- 

 tised in the farm papers. 



PRACTICAL EXAMPLES. 



FOUNDATION SILLS FOR GRANARY. 



Mr. J. H. Crowell of Bertrans, Mo., has constructed six foundation 

 sills for a granary, each thirty-two feet long with a section fourteen 

 inches wide at bottom, six inches wide at top and twelve inches 

 high, containing 5.9 cubic yards. About five and one-half cubic 

 yards of sand and gravel were used and five barrels of cement. The 

 cost was $17.20 for material and $7.00 for labor. Old scrap lumber 

 was used for forms. The cement, sand and gravel was mixed dry 



