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Rowley, Hudson, N. Y., holds the right for these posts, who will 

 sell farm or State rights for them. 



REMEDY TO PREVENT POSTS BEING LIFTED BY THE FROST. 



225. When posts having a straight end of uniform size are 

 set in the ground, unless they are set three or four feet deep in 

 the ground, they are very liable to be lifted out of the ground in 

 a few years by the influence of the frost. In dry localities, how 

 ever, the freezing and thawing of the ground has little or no 

 effect on them. Setting very deep in the ground is the usual 

 remedy against their heaving out in the winter, but a more con 

 venient and cheaper one is to bore a two-inch hole through the bot 

 torn of each post, and drive in a hard wood pin, allowing it to 

 extend beyond the surface of the post about four inches, and then 

 in setting the posts place a stone on each end of the pin, and let 

 FIG. 81. the dirt be well rammed down on the stones. 

 Another and better remedy is, to cut a notch on 

 each side of the bottom of the post, about four 

 inches from the lower end, and ram the dirt well 

 into these notches, or place stones in them, as 

 shown by Fig. 81, which represents a post with 

 stones placed in the notches. Posts may be cut 

 on both sides, if they are of good size, so that in 

 the thinnest place they will be not more than 

 one inch and a half thick, without injuring their 

 strength or Durability, because at the bottom of 

 a post, which is from two to three feet below the 

 surface of the ground, but little strength is neces 

 sary ; and at that depth in the ground a post de- 

 MODE OF PREVENTING C avs very slowly. It should be remembered, that 



FENCE Peal's BEING i 



LIFTI:I) Y THE FROST, posts decay most at the surface of the ground. 

 When posts are rather small, a notch may be cut only on one 

 sido of them for receiving the stone. This is a most effectual 

 remedy for the heaving of posts by frost. 



