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Show Crowing Fence Posts Farmers living in the hill and mountain sections from southern New York to northern Georgia can successfully grow black locust frees for fence posts. The wood is exceptionally ex-ceptionally durable In I lie ground. An insect, the locust borer, will undoubtedly un-doubtedly do some drainage, but in the region specified this valuable tree can, as a rule, be profitably grown. At lower altitudeSj pnrticiir larly tbe Ohio River basin, Ihe borer bor-er usually .seriously injures or kills tbe tree. Last winter nn 18-year-old planted plant-ed stand of black locusts In Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania was cut. It yielded an average per acre of 657 round posts over 5 inches in diameter at tbe small end and 4(17 ikisIs 3 to 0 inches in diameter. At 2 cent) a post tbe acre brought in $265. . Allowing Al-lowing $30 fnr investment, of land and the cost of original planting, tbe annual profit was about $13 an acre. |