Show WIRE FENCE RED CEDAR HEDGES ens cultivator some sump two 1110 iilo mok moi AW ibs lbs ago I 1 wrote you makine making inquiries about the iho expense of wire and wire wire fence which you were kind enough to answer since that time I 1 have put pat up about one hundred rods of wire fenee fence five strands high I 1 SMAS it after the plan of A B described in ygor april no I 1 set chestnut posts at the eba a or corners of the lines and braced them havin having 7 a lot of chestnut rails on hand I 1 out ew in two each making two stakes chith I 1 set apart the distance of a rails length I 1 put my bottom wire 12 inches from tk cound ground and each wire about 9 inches flom from the one below it which makes nukes the fenne fence ce 4 high big 1 I 1 used about half no 10 and hemf heff teo teg flO wire wire annealed the fence all set and wa completed cost me about 37 12 1 2 cs per rod were I 1 to set more I 1 should zao Wao wire finer than no 9 osgood of good quality I 1 sai sad W quite confident in regard to my no 9 0 but bit of the no 10 1 I am not so confident it needs tobe to be proved after setting lit it myrten man drove some gome c cows against it but it men up and no damage to the wire til fir mode of straining the wire was as follow follows take a hickory stick say 2 21 12 1 2 inclima in diameter and 2 feet ione iona long iong with an laeh inch and a half at auker auger bore a oie hole hoie ole say two inches from the on ond end iier iler through this put pat a stick say MY two feet long iong foral forai for a lever leven ever between this thib hole and the enro enlo end of f the hick hickory stick at right angles with the 11 2 inch hole put through a large wood screw to prevent splitting about 6 inches from the other end put through a hole bole 14 1 4 of an inch or less in diameter and your sTRA isERis done insert your wire through the lever lover and post at each end fasten it at one end and draw it as tight as convenient with your ur hands at the other slip the wire wire th through h the small hole in the strainer and turn until you have taken out the kinks and made the wire as tight as you please I 1 think this strainer preferable to A B s as it is easily made and you can strain each wire separately as tight as yoa you please dlease and one strainer answers for all the tile fence you may ever wish tomake to make and should adire a wire ever break that alone can be mended without interfering with the others at first to hold the wires at the ends we drove in pins ping and then brought them half wa way T round the post to the main wire and t twisted ted a few times around this but should vou wish to alter the wire or should it break it is not easy to get it out where the tiie bin pin pin holds it there is no need of a pin as the wire can be brought back and fastened as above mentioned without as well as with it and if you wish to slip it afterwards you can without trouble I 1 obtained my wire of barback Bar bank chase co in lov LoN lowell vell veil they had bad about ibs lbs no 10 on hand which they sold me at 5 acts ets they ordered me ibs lbs no 9 for which I 1 paid 61 6 12 1 bets 2 acts the no 10 seemed to be r wire of inferior quality such as I 1 would advise no ono one to us use e althou although 11 firt chaap I 1 thank th in the end erd it t ra v prove dear the no 9 was as soft and arr and I 1 have no doubt will meet expectation insl instead ad of the thrpo l horned anar arar a as I 1 I 1 v rt r t you 1 have hav bp be n advised by a n tle tie aleca a from lor loi loby lony T I 1 land ti tc s t red cedr cedar by the side of xv TM P f a 0 t edge hedge he re commends to set them s 4 feet apart and when they get 4 or 5 feet neph h gh c it we laem in half off and bend them theta d an m ulio I 1 a the prot I 1 n rw r t pid iddo doain im ads and id antii antil a c cm n pl i L f mat rf cf b age ire i fo i d t i 1 that at to UP use U P h awn 1 lp r TC re the dvis dv dev deis isan is cn t get thio hit it it id 11 rn if it ft t s 0 o r I 1 be un uli uia 1 r great great CD ak gi gj eions t him fr 1 r we have hive r e a nii ni nil i r cf of that kind about herband here hero and it etwas x a the thc fence no we wanted it of if r arse iluf 11 uit be pruned upon the aides bides a ard d r i the t p bhe like other hedge I 1 woula boulo L 1 to inquire through thront li the cultivator if y i please about red cedar hedge hidge I 1 w b h to turn such characters a t bove alid 0 o rath r th n for beauty tr or t r ornament GEO FIELD low ll 11 mass miss jun 30 50 r |