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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 25 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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IRON POSTS FOR WIRE FENCING. 
If., Greene Co., Y. I’.—I would like to hear 
about the practicability of using iron fence 
posts with four-foot American woven wire 
fencing. Will they stand the strain with¬ 
out leaning? Must they be galvanized to 
prevent rusting? What do they cost per 
100? Some years ago they were advertised 
in farm papers. I,et us hear from users. 
1 iocust and chestnut posts cost from $10 to 
$35 per 100 here. Counting decay and cost 
of setting, would not iron posts be cheaper? 
Of recent years woven wire fence has 
been extensively used for lawn and farm 
purposes, but as a general proposition 
iron posts are not adapted for the erec¬ 
tion of this fence. 
AMERICA N STEEL & WIRE CO. 
New York. 
Beyond doubt the best of all posts is 
locust If large, sound and properly 
planted they will last a lifetime. Such 
posts can be had here at about $20 per 
hundred. Chestnut posts are not so 
good. Chestnut when split into rails 
and laid up in the form of worm fence 
will last many years, but when buried 
it soon decays. Iron posts, if of suffi¬ 
cient weight and properly anchored, 
will stand the strain of any wire fence. 
THE IDE A I. FENCE TOOE CO. 
Somerset, Pa. 
The principal objection to iron posts 
has been the price. The interest alone 
on the difference in cost of any good iron 
post and a wood post will more than 
pay for the cost of keeping up wood 
posts, especially if a locust or hedge post 
is used. Fence posts of either of these 
two woods will last for many years. In 
fact, we believe they will outlast the ma¬ 
jority of the iron posts we have seen, 
especially those iron posts that are made 
of sheet steel, as these posts are sure to 
rust through in a comparatively short 
time. KEYSTONE FENCE CO. 
Peoria, Ill. 
It has been our experience in testing 
almost every kind of steel and iron post 
made, that all of them have some faults. 
Either they are not stiff enough or they 
are not properly galvanized or painted 
to prevent them from rusting. In com¬ 
parison we are quite well satisfied that 
a locust, Red cedar or hedge post will be 
far more satisfactory; they will he long¬ 
er lived and we know that they will be 
stiffer. We believe if a steel post is 
made with sufficient weight and in the 
right shape, being galvanized before 
completed, it will be very satisfactory. 
We have been advising our friends to 
use wood posts in every case, as we feel 
that the results will be more satisfactory 
than with the metal post. 
SPRING STEER FENCE & WIRE CO. 
Anderson, Ind. 
Our experience with iron fence posts 
has been far from satisfactory. If our 
fence was to be used, and a customer 
should ask us which was the best, we 
should say to him emphatically that we 
would much prefer locust posts at the 
price you mention, to any steel post that 
we know of at the price they would ask 
for same. Would say also that we have 
regarded chestnut as a very good post, 
but we do not believe it will begin to 
compare in durability and strength with 
the locust. The steel post, when set in 
cement and well braced with the over¬ 
ground style of bracing, we find bears 
our fence very well. As to galvanizing 
steel posts we do not know where it is 
being done. Indeed, we think the dif¬ 
ference in cost between them and the 
locust post you mention is so great that 
nobody now would think of buying gal¬ 
vanized steel posts. 
'PAGE WOVEN WIRE FEN' E CO. 
Adrian, Mich. 
Tree Planting on Sable Island. 
Several Readers. — Last year The R. N.-Y. 
had an account of an experiment in plant¬ 
ing trees and shrubs on Sable Island. How 
did it come out? 
Ans. —Sable Island is a flat, sandy 
place off the coast of Nova Scotia. It is 
surrounded by treacherous shoals—a 
menace to seamen. As the surface is flat 
and the sand light-colored the Island is 
hard to discover, especially during a 
storm. Ships have been thrown upon 
the shoals because the waves left little 
of the Island to be seen. One reason for 
trying to cover a part of it with trees 
and shrubs is that the dark color of this 
vegetation would mark the Island and 
enable ships to keep away from it The 
experiment was under the direction of 
Prof. Wm. Saunders, of the Ottawa, Ont., 
College. The following note from him 
tells what has been done: 
“As to the result of the tree-planting 
experiment on Sable Island undertaken 
in the Spring of 1901 I have received only 
one letter this year from the Island, and 
that was written on May 26. I am hop¬ 
ing to receive another letter from the 
superintendent there before long. In 
his letter of May 26 he says that the 
Winter on the Island has been very 
mild, with little snow and not much 
frost. ‘March was very mild. April was 
cold and windy, and that weather has 
continued up to a week ago. Many pines 
that seemed to stand the Winter went 
red in April, and many of those that 
turned color have now recovered and are 
putting out new buds. Austrian, Moun¬ 
tain and Maritime pines are the most 
promising, and those that are now doing 
well are the smaller specimens. Nearly 
all the larger ones planted have died. A 
few spruces of all the kinds planted sur¬ 
vive, as also of the arbor vitae, but they 
are not promising. Many of the seed¬ 
ling Maritime pines were killed where 
they were exposed without shelter, hut 
where they had the shelter of the sand¬ 
binding grass they are growing finely, 
and thousands of them are now green 
and putting out new buds. The tops of 
the deciduous trees were killed more or 
less; some half way down, others to the 
ground, and some are killed outright. 
Included in these are Pyrus baccata and 
P. prunifolia, Caragana arborescens and 
Populus alba. All these deciduous trees 
put out leaves a month ago, but lately 
they have been more or less blighted by 
the very high winds. Some of the goose¬ 
berry and currant bushes have thus been 
stripped. As I have mentioned before, 
shelter is necessary to success. Ampel- 
opsis quinquefolia which made vines last 
year from three to six feet long laid on 
the ground, and they are alive to the 
tips. Lycium Europeum also did well, 
but as this grows more upright it was 
partly killed. Strawberries came through 
well and look fine. Roses, with a few 
exceptions, are growing. Raspberries 
and blackberries killed down, but are 
starting vigorously from the roots. 
Later I will send you a more complete 
list of the casualties and fuller particu¬ 
lars regarding those things which grow. 
Another M inter with the experience had 
I shall be able to protect things better, 
shelter from the wind is the main point 
You will remember that there were 
about 1,000 trees (pines and spruces) 
planted in front of the house among the 
grass in almost pure sand. When the 
grass grew strongly I had part of it cut 
with a hook, and where this was done 
nearly 90 per cent of the trees are dead. 
Where the grass was left uncut nearly 
all the trees are alive and thrifty. In 
this grass there are some nice specimens 
of Pinus Strobus, which has not stood 
exposure at all.’ These extracts from 
Mr. Boutellier’s letter will give you all 
the information at present available.” 
Kieffer Pears In Enoi.and.- John S. 
Collins & Sons, of Moorestown, N. J., have 
shipped their fourteenth carload of Kieffer 
pears xo London, Liverpool and Glasgow 
up to the present time, and are still ship¬ 
ping. The pears arrive is good condi¬ 
tion. We have about 25,000 Kieffer pear 
trees in bearing now, different ages. My 
father, John S. Collins, was the first man 
to plant Kieffer pear trees on a large 
scale. a. j. com. ins. 
There is no “perhaps” about £■ 
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conditions and hard usage. The old-fashioned 
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of dead beasts. Vermin and germs have doubt¬ 
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needs frequent “making over”—whick is a dirty 
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All six feet 3 inches long. 
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WE PREPAY ALL EXPRESS CHARGES. 
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CHURCH CUSHIONS. 
We make and renovate them quickly, thor¬ 
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are in use in over 2a,000 churches. Send for 
our new book “ Church Cushions,” which 
contains (among others) a remarkable letter 
from Rev. D. S. MacArthur, of Calvary Baptist 
Church, New York. 
OSTERMOOR & COMPANY, 107 Elizabeth Street, New York. 
WATER. 
If you want, water only when the wind blows a windmill will do your work 
and cost less money than our Rider and Ericsson Hot-Air Pumps, but if you want 
water every day while your flowers are growing and do not want your pump blown 
down when the wind blows too hard no pump in the world can equal ours. We 
have sold about 20,000 of them during the past twenty-flve years, which is proof 
that we are not making wild statements. 
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VICTORY FEED MILL. 
Oldest and Best Grinding Mill 
Made. Will crush and grind 
corn and cob and all kinds of 
graip, mixed or separate. 
Grinds faster, finer and with 
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Are built strong, well made of 
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Made in four sizes for 1,4.8 
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Box 2 15, Hpringlield, O. 
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The best Ensilage and Fodder Cutter on earth, 
and so warranted. Special introduction prices 
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Manitowoc, Yi If. 
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Any power from 54 op to 3-hor*. 
power will operate this mill. 
Capacity from 3 to 15 bushels per 
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Dept. G, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Do You Feed We will also 
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Our Illustrated Catalogue No. 45 is Free. 
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MARVIN SMITH GO. “*s&8Ssnsir* 
YES, IT IS THE 
That we can furnish you the Frost—the original and 
only genuine Coiled Spring Wire as cheaply as the 
imitations. Get our new cut prices on all kinds of wire. 
THE FROST WIRE FENCE CO., Cleveland, 0. 
YOU CAN’T CET 
Page-Wire, nor our principle of construction In 
any wire fence excepting the PAGE. We make our 
own wire, and don’t sell any. 
PAGE WOVEN WIRE PENCE CO., ADRIAN,MICH. 
Poultrynien 
HAVE BEEN LOOKING for a better poultry 
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CASE BROS., Colchester, Conn. 
The Strongest Fence 
in existence is our Truss and Cable 
Wire Board Fence. Six wires in every 
strand. Costs less, lasts longer, more 
easily built than any other. Sold di¬ 
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Agents wanted. Sample free. 
THE TRUSS & CABLE FENCE CO., ^ 
. 323 Federal Bldg., Youngstown, Ohio, jafc&wa*- 
