Show LIVE POSTS WIRE FENCES ETC under the caption of wire fences in the june number of the agriculturist I 1 see a statement that a wire fence fence has been built for per mile sufficient to turn cattle horses ac cheap as this tilis may appear I 1 think I 1 can offer oner a plan of constructing a fence sufficient to turn cattle at a a far less cost say 10 or 12 per mile which if it prove practicable would be some saving the plan I 1 propose is to procure about eight quarts of long iong ong leaved leased pine seed and sow BOW them on a breadth of land where the fence is wanted not exceeding two feet in width there is no danger forgetting or of getting them too thick the thicker the better say as thick as you would sow buckwheat I 1 should think might answer they will require the cattle and other stock to be kept from them for about four years but will need neither cultivation nor attention of any kind except to destroy the worms which will be likely to attack some of them in the month of june in the second third and fourth years after which they will be out of danger of worms and stock and ind by the sixth or seventh years cattle could not force their way through them and if they come thick enough there will be but little danger to be apprehended froin from animal of the smaller kind I 1 have a pine thicket now growing not sown bd wever with design of fence in many places of which a sucking pig rig of a few weeks old could not pass between them thern and I 1 infer if the pines will viii grow grew so close without arrangement they would do the tile same with the above is a theory based upon observation you cart can take it ar for what it is worth but I 1 intend to put it into practice the coming winter to soine some extent should it prove practicable to make a fence of this description large farms could be enclosed with it without much loss loso especially when land is cheap and a great deal of waste land or con coin inions niona might be enclosed in regard to live for fur wire fence it occurs to me rne that pines would be much better adapted than dian any other kind of wood as they would grow large enough i in it t a few years and I 1 think the turpentine would prevent corrosion of the wire should this prove correct I 1 think there could be nothing more suitable for they are rather more a fertiliser fertilizer liser than exhauster of poor land at least and I 1 think they would add to the beauty of the firm farm fancy to you yourself a farm firm atrid amely yomei y iid ild ludoff with rows oi of evi evergreens ever greens at intervals 49 or fifty feet in a row TOW do you not think it be an improvement on the th zig zi renee fenee of the aw present day A As for the ice ground occa occupied pled pied wheat I 1 think would grow up to the lie very roots of the tree I 1 have just juat harvested wheat five feet high within the distance di of a common cart track from froin a row raiv of pines in places thick enough for fence themselves corn ij ii growing on the tha opposite side and looks quite healthy within a few feet ot of the trees this row ia is about one eighth of a mile in length with the th design of seeding an old field which whick the introduction of guano has saved the tho th trouble I 1 now intend to thin it out on tits tir plan above proposed and insert wires with a handsaw and hope to make a formidable fence Z delaware american agriculturist |