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which are inserted in a furrow, when the fence is to be 

 made six inches deep, before the ditch is commenced ; 

 this will save all excavation for posts by hand, and, when 

 the embankment is formed, the posts will be two feet in 

 the ground. 



If the team can travel twelve miles per day, this will 

 give six passages on each side of the embankment, and 

 completes one mile in extent in a day. 



I will give an estimate of fencing different quantities 

 of land. The size and shape of the tract materially affect 

 the cost per acre. 



Two teams, $2 50 each, one day, (one with plough and one 



with scraper,) $5 00 



1^20 rails sharpened and delivered, at Mr. Robinson's estimate, 



two cents 26 40 



440 posts, bored complete, three cents 13 60 



Setting posts and putting in rails, five days 5 00 



Cost per mile 50 00 



Add for contingencies 25 per cent 12 50 



62 50 



1 section, o40 acre*, 4 miles, cost $250 00, per acre $0 39 



4 320 3 187 50, 58J 



160 2 125 00, 



78 



1 17 



1 56 



2 39 



I 80 1* 93 75, 



1-16 40 1 62 50, 



1-32 20 J 46 87, 



1-64 10 4 35 25, 3 12* 



When roads or unoccupied land do not adjoin, the ex- 

 penses will be reduced, since adjoining proprietors are 

 bound to pay if they improve one-half the value of the 

 fence. 



This estimate is made from common prairie land, which 

 is not more than three miles from timber, and where the 



