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will cost less. Cement posts, unlike cement blocks, can- 

 not well be made in a machine and carried aside on 



panels, because the 

 pallets bend and the 

 posts crack, perhaps 

 only sufficient to al- 

 low air in to rust the 

 reinforcing wires. The 

 pallets 

 should 

 until the 



Fifeure 265. One of the very best systems of 

 bracing wooden end posts. 



for line fences 

 remain in place 

 post hardens, 

 the sides and ends of 

 the forms to be used in 

 succession on station- 

 ary bases. Narrow, three-cornered strips of wood are 

 sometimes laid lengthwise in the corners of the mold, 

 so as to round the corners of the post, but as the down- 

 ward face of the post is the one to which the wire fenc- 

 ing is attached 

 this is not very 

 important. The 

 upper corners 

 can be rounded 

 with a trowel, 

 if the mixture 

 is not too wet. 

 Painting the 

 insides of the 

 molds with 

 soap is often 



WISe. Four Figure 266. Poor method of bracing corner posts. 



inches from the 



top of the post, make a transverse groove in the back 

 of the post near its top to hold in place a wire 

 which binds a staple board to the post; or, 8 inches 

 below the top, lay horizontally a corn cob, a piece of 



