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AFFORESTATION OF WASTE LANDS 



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sufficient for keeping out sheep and cattle. It should consist of one 

 wire of No. 6 Galvanized 7-ply strand on the top, and six wires of 

 No. 8 Bessemer steel wire below. Standards of T iron (furnished 

 with side stays) for fixing into stone laid 14 yards apart, should be 

 erected along the line of fence, and straining pillars 160 yards 

 apart, and droppers at G feet apart, should occupy the spaces between 

 (see Fig. 5). The material should be the best procurable. In 



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laying out the line of fence, the superintendent should bear in mind 

 the advantage of having standards in all the hollow and high parts, 

 thereby saving the additional expense of filling up the gaps in the 

 former, and levelling down the latter, which would be necessary 

 were the standards placed indiscriminately. In the event of the 

 fence running along a public highway, it would help greatly to 

 secure it against any extra pressure or damage (to which it would 



Fig. 6. 



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not be so much exposed in any other place) to have a ditch in front 

 about 4 feet wide at top, H foot at baseband 1:^ foot deep, the turf 



