FARM BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT. 



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feet from the end post to permit the 

 use of a wooden brace, four by four 

 by twelve, or its equivalent, twelve 

 feet long, placed diagonally to make 

 sure the brace is stiff enough to stand 

 the pressure without buckling. This 

 brace should be set flat against the 

 post, about ten inches from the 

 ground at the second post; and the 

 same distance from the top of the 

 end post. On the second post flatten 

 the post just enough to allow the 

 brace to have a solid bearing surface. 

 Do not mortise so as to weaken the 

 post, spike both ends of brace se- 

 curely. The brace now having been 

 set diagonally between the two posts, 

 use No. 8 (or larger) soft galvanized 

 wire for a counter brace, winding 

 and stapling it around the bottom 

 of the end post, close to the ground, 

 and round the end of second post, 

 about six inches from the top, 'ising 

 a wire stretcher to draw the wire s 

 tight as possible. The rest of the 

 work of building a fence is familiar 

 to most farmers, except perhaps the 

 method of posting in hollows. Posts 

 in hollows should be anchored as 

 shown in Figure 6, so that the fence 

 shall not pull the posts out of the 

 ground. 



LIGHTNING RODS. 



From the days of Franklin to th% 

 present time the value of lightning 

 rods has been an undetermined quan- 

 tity, physicists of course holding that 

 they must 'be highly beneficial, the 

 greater mass of the people, however, 

 retaining an open mind, while some ac- 

 cepting the teachings of science rodded 

 their buildings; and still others count- 

 ed absurd the idea that rods and 

 points could have any worth in pre- 

 venting damage to buildings by light- 

 ning. From time to time practical 

 data have appeared giving one side of 

 a comparison, but lacking the other 

 — e.g., "A certain insurance company 

 over a period of years has never paid 

 a dollar of insurance oa a rodded 

 building damaged by lightning," but 

 they were unable to tell what per- 

 centage of their risks were rodded, 

 so no definite comparison could be 

 made. 



Now, however, the Ontario Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture is pleased to pre- 

 sent the data herein contained, giving 

 complete comparisons, which prove 

 unmistakably that lightning rods pro- 



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