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Show WIRE FENCES. Editors Herald: I beg to hand you the process of making wire fence, taken from an eastern eas-tern paper: '"Red cedar posts were set eight feet apart, and holes were bored through the posts six, eight and twelve inches apart, the lower wire being one foot from the ground, and the nest two six inches apart, with another eight inches above and one twelve inches above that. The ends of the posts were large and firmly set. .One end of each wire was put through the hole in the post at one end, wound around the post once and twisted to fasten it. Then the wire was passed through each post to the other end post, where it was wound twice or thrice around a horizontal capstan; cap-stan; consisting of a round b'ock of hard wood three inches in diameter, through each end of which was inserted insert-ed a short lever with which to turn it. This capstan was laid against the side of the end post, under the wire, which was wound two or three times about it to get purchase one man took hold of the wire and another of the lever of the capstan, and the entire line was thus tightened till perfectly "taut." Pine or cedar half inch plugs, soaked in oil, were then driven in the poles beside and above the wire, on each side of each post, thus dividing the strain among the posts, and protecting the wires from water. After these plugs were driven, the wire Wis taken from the capstan, and wound about and fastened fas-tened to the end post. The wires were then painted and were warranted to last twenty fyears without repair. No. 9 wire was used." The foregoing mode of building wire fence, I think will prove far more efficient effi-cient than the process generally adopted. Respectfully, &e. A Milton Mltsser. |