Show setting fence pasts the setting of fence posts top toy downwards has bas been recon recommended mended by many who have tried the experiment I 1 A ew tork bork farmer in in a communication to ohe ore one of the agricultural 0 japera in that sate tate bate sw says about thirty years ago 1 I to test teb the thing split spilt two bar posts side by sido dut butof of al chesnut log they were eight feet long iong eight inches wide and three thick one I 1 set butt down the other top down at the end of ten years the ane one set in butt down aown was rotted off and I 1 reset re set it in the same hole at the end of six years it was rotted oil oft again and I 1 put in ili anecone ane ade a new dew wone one the other lasted four years longer got split in wo and I 1 took it out and aad it wA vas about two iwo thirds rotted ok off sixteen years ago I 1 set setsie six pair of oe bar posts all split cut of the we butt cut of the same sam white ewhite oak 0 og o one pair I 1 set butts down anether another pair ol 01 oni ons nt butt down the other top down four years vears ago those set butt down were rotted on at had to be replaced by new nev ones Tins summer I 1 had occasion to reset re set those that were set top down I 1 found them all sound enough to be reset re set sef my experiments have hale convinced me that the best way is to set them tops down it has hiso also been asserted by many enany that fence costs cut in the bummer summer will last much ion lon longer ioner er than those cut in the winter season A writer in the new england farmer says about the first of june turie 1840 1 made two pairs of hemlock bar poste the sticks of which they were made were about ten or twelve inched in diameter lt the largest end sided bided down to four or five inches luches to the tho top of the ground being round below cut at the time and add of course the bark off one pair was set in suite bite moist ground and andis is now standing though I 1 think nearly used up the other pair was set in dry loamy ground and arld broke brok off in the fall from abig whig a digh tigh wind ivind the fifteenth year after they were vom bow set the tho bame same sticks cut in the winter would not have lasted half so solona long iong |