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Show FARMER8 LOSE $250,000,000 ANNUALLY IN ROTTED P08T8 Creosotlng Lengthens Life by Keeping Keep-ing Out Molitur. A loss amounting to $250,000,000 duo to Uio rotting ot ronco posts and other lumber is borno by tho tanners tann-ers or tho United States each year. Wood rota bocauso ot tho expanding and contracting ot tho llbors causod by different dogroos of dampnoss. Fence posts rot nt tho ground bocauso bo-causo that is tho part of tho post Bub-Jocted Bub-Jocted to tho groatest changoa in do-jreos do-jreos of dampness. Creosotlng Is ono of tho mothods usod In tho preservation of wood. Cresoto Is an oil, and Is easily applied. ap-plied. Tho method ot application differs according to tho uses to which tho wood Is to bo put It can bo iprayod on tho wood or tho wood can bo dipped in a tank of croBoto. Railroad Rail-road tlos aro usually dipped In a hot lolutlon or creosoto, remaining In tho tank Bovoral hours. It Is not nn ox-uonslvo ox-uonslvo process and moro than pays for Itsoir by preventing tho wood from rotting. On tho farm, cruosoto Is especially valuable tor ronco posts, hog housos, or any wood that Is exposed to much change In dogroo or dampness. Croo-iota Croo-iota not only provonts rotting hut tho wood Iroatod with It Is Immune from attacks or insocta. Creosoto provonts molsturo from enterlug tho ilbor of tho wood bo-Jauso bo-Jauso tho open spaces nro lllled with oil. It Is only nocossnry to dip tho end of .a post that will bo put In tho ground, dipping It to n holght that will loavo tho cresoted portion a few Inches abovo tho ground. Kas. Industrialist. |
