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Account of Wire Fences. By White and Hazard* 



Read January 8th. IS 16. 



White' 's-Town, 1st. Month, 2nd. 1816. 



Friends, 



The attention of the Agricultural Society having been 

 frequently directed towards the discovery of substitutes 

 for the usual expensive mode of fencing, and invited 

 inquiries upon that subject ; we make no apology for 

 offering to their consideration, a plan which not only pre- 

 sents a diminution of expense, but also to the farmer a 

 source of very considerable profit. 



It is to form rails of wire, and posts of living trees. In 

 order to render the advantages apparent, we shall first pre- 

 sent a statement of the expense of a common post and 

 rail fence, and then exhibit an estimate of the cost, and. 

 we trust, a reasonable average for the produce of a fence 

 erected on the plan which we would propose. 



Cost of a common fence for 100 acres, ~) _,- ,._^ 



for 50 years. 3 



Cost of a wire-fence for do. do. SL751 



Leaving without any other consideration, ~) 

 a saving, and consequent profit of, 5 

 But in addition to this we must take into view, I 

 the whole produce of the trees, will be a nett profit. The 

 amount of this will, in some measure depend on the na- 

 ofthe trees, as indicated by the richness of the soil, or the 

 judgment of the farmer. We subjoin a catalogue of such 



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