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set on edge ; a key is thou driven down close to the post. Stones are 

 packed all round, and the post is fixed. One point has to be observed : 

 the stones act as a horizontal stay, and must be placed to resist the strain 

 Having put the utmost test on this method of fixing strainers with a 

 Ko. 3 wire, I never found them " give." I fix up my gate-posts in a similar 

 TFay ; only when they are not straining posts I place the stones of the 

 hanging post on the side next the gate, and make sure the stones are well 

 wedged up on the opening side. I have erected wire fences, with every 

 post fixed with stone, at a cost of something less than a penny per yard. 

 I am fully persuaded if posts were seasoned, charred, and tarred, as pre- 

 viously recommended, and erected with stones as described, it would prove 

 the best preventative of rot yet found out. 



D. Sym Scott. 

 Ballinacourte, Tipperary. 



PRESERYIXG OF WOOD POSTS. 

 Sir, — We have read with pleasure the discussion in your Journal on the 

 preservation of fencing posts, and as some of your correspondents are 

 desirous of knowing what sort of iron prong Mr, Baxter advocates, we 

 have pleasure in sending you a sketch of the same, and ask your kind 

 permission to insert it in your next issue for their information. Those 

 which we supplied to Mr. Baxter for his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh 



were made with a single prong as shown on sketch ; the three holes in the 

 standard were countersunk on both sides, so that the prong may be fixed 



