70 transactions of royal scottish arboricultural society. 

 Cost of Iron-and-Wire and of Stob-and-Wire Fences 



COMPARED WITH THAT OF ThORN H EDGES, WITH UPKEEP OF 



EACH FOR Twenty Years. 



Iron-and- Wire Fence. 



With 3 wires — No. 8, 7-pIy strand wire. 

 2 „ No. 7, „ 

 I wire — barbed wire. Per Rood of 6 yds. 



i-. d. 



Material and erection, 3s. 8d. to 4s., say . . 40 



Upkeep, repairing wires, etc., ..... 06 



Re-wiring and re-tarring standards at end of 20 years, i 6 



Depreciation of iron at 2 J^, . . . . . 010 



Total cost offence per rood of 6 yards, 6 10 



Stob-and- Wire Fence. 



Material — creosoted Scots pine stobs, with wires 

 same as in iron fence. 



Material and erection, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d., say 

 Upkeep for 20 years, ...... 



Renewing at end of 20 years, ..... 



Removing old fence, ...... 



Total cost of fence per rood of 6 yards, 



Tliorn Hedge. 



Single row with one drain, one protecting fence, 

 and one ditch on plantation side. 



Trenching ground and planting hedge, 



Plants — 54 per rood at 2s. per 100, .... 



Cutting and laying drain 2J, ft. deep, 



Tiles, at 4s. per loo, ..... 



Cutting ditch and spreading soil, .... 



5 % on 2s. 6d. — cost of light-protecting fence for 6 



years, ........ 



Erecting and removing fence, ..... 



Cleaning and brushing hedge, and cleaning ditch for 



14 years at i^d., ...... 



Layering hedge twice during 20 years ai 8d., . 

 Beating up, say 2d., 



Total cost of hedge per rood of 6 yards. 



3 6 



o 6 



3 6 



o 2 



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