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screwed eye-bolts and nuts for straining 

 the wires, and wrought iron intermediate 

 uprights, l£ by | iron, every 8 feet, hav- 

 ing 6 horizontal wires : 



For horses, cattle and sheep, of No. 4 

 wire, Is. 2d. per lineal yard. 



For cattle and sheep, No. 5 wire, Is. 

 Id. per lineal yard. 



For cattle and sheep, No. 6 wire, Is. 

 per lineal yard. 



For sheep No. 7 wire, lid. per lineal 

 yard. 



For sheep, No. 8 wire, lOd. per lineal 

 yard. 



Same fences for wood uprights, 6 hori- 

 zontal wires, including staples : 



For cattle and horses, of No. 4 wire, 

 7d. per lineal yard. 



For cattle and sheep, No. 5 wire, 6d. 

 per lineal yard. 



For cattle and sheep, No. 6 wire, 5d. 

 per lineal yard. 



For sheep. No. 7 wire, 4d. per lineal 

 yard. 



If to include one wrought iron straining 

 pillar for every 75 yards, complete with 

 screwed eye-bolts, and nuts for straining 

 the wires, Id. per yard extra. These are 

 the prices of materials " delivered free at 

 Leith, Glasgow, Liverpool, and Hull" — 

 printed instructions, illustrated by wood 

 cuts, accompanying each order, by which 

 any laborer can readily erect the fences. 



According to the above prices, a fence 

 designed for cattle and sheep, three and a 

 half feet high, with six horizontal wires, 

 would cost, if of No. 5 wire, about $1 50 

 per rod ; if of No. 6 wire, about $1 25 

 per rod. Or the wires for the same kind 

 of fence, for wood uprights or posts, in- 

 cluding staples for fastening the wires, 

 about 67 cents per rod, if of No. 5 wire, 

 and about 55 cents per rod, if of No. 6 

 wire. It may be as well to remark here, 

 that No. 4 wire is a fourth of an inch in 

 diameter, No. 8, three-sixteenths, and the 

 other numbers regularly intermediate. — 

 What would be the cost of importing 

 these fences we are unable to say ; but 

 could they not be manufactured at as low 

 a cost in this country, expense of trans- 

 portation, duties, &c, considered, as they 

 could be imported ? If such fences could 



be erected here at the prices above named, 

 they would not be more expensive in their 

 first cost than the fences usually con- 

 structed in many sections, while their per- 

 manence and indestructibleness would give 

 them a decided advantage. 



If any friend of the "Planter" has had ex- 

 perience of these wire fences and can give us 

 any information upon the subject, we will be 

 much obliged to him. We are particularly 

 desirous of ascertaining the comparative cost 

 of iron with wood fences in Virginia, how far 

 apart the posts should be placed, the mode of 

 stretching the wire, against what kind of stock 

 such a fence is available, &c. 



THE CARROT. 



We would thus seasonably call the at- 

 tention of farmers to the advantages of 

 the carrot crop. Whether the potato will 

 continue to be affected with the malady 

 which has attacked it for a few years 

 past, is more than any one can tell. But 

 it is best, in the language of the homely 

 proverb, ££ to provide for the worst, though 

 we hope for the best and on soils which 

 are sufficiently friable, we should decidedly 

 prefer the carrot, to grow as a substitute 

 for the potato in feeding animals, to any 

 other vegetable. It is true the carrot has 

 not been altogether exempt from the blight 

 and tendency to premature decay with 

 which several species of plants have been 

 lately attacked ; but so far as our obser- 

 vation has gone, the white or Belgian 

 carrot is the only variety which has suf- 

 fered to such an extent as to occasion 

 much loss. This kind has been supposed 

 to yield more than the orange, and other 

 kinds, with less labor in cultivation, and 

 we think this is the fact, where the crop 

 remains perfectly healthy ; but the white 

 is acknowledged to be less nutritive than 

 the others ; so that with the liability to 

 disease, and the inferior quality of the 

 white, we should unhesitatingly recom- 

 mend the orange variety. 



Carrots are known to be excellent food 

 for milch cows, and also for horses. W e 

 have formerly been in the habit of using 



