Show I CEDAR FENCES ARE PASSING Wood Rapidly Being Bought Up for Use in the Manufacture of Lead Pencils Today through many sections of ot Tennessee Virginia and other states where cedar used to thrive It Is difficult difficult dim dim- cult to find any of the time old-time zag zig-zag fences where rattlesnakes used to hide and woodchucks burrow and bobwhites bobwhites bobwhites bob- bob whites make their nests Modern clean clenn woven wIre fences with metal posts take their places The war boosted the price of ot steel and woven wire put but ut not enough to prevent making it profitable to exchange exchange exchange ex ex- change new fences for tor old and the work Is still going on Probably In another another another an an- other five years there wont won't be a foot toot of ot cedar rail fence left In America When General Andrew Johnson moved to Tennessee In 1815 the central part of ot the state was overgrown with ce ce- dars They were cut to clear the land and burned to get rid of ot them Millions Millions of ot feet of or them were split Into rails ralls the sort Lincoln split when a boy and used for off fencing plantations boundary lines fields and pastures These rails are sliced Into six Inch lengths on the ground before shipping to th the factories to facilitate handling A two-Inch two strip a rod long will make 1500 pencils and as the fences have from six to nine rails and one section will make enough two-Inch two strips for more than 1500 pen pencil ell sticks A rod of ot farm fence will retail for I nearly provided provided it is good cedar mid cedar arid the woven wire fences cost no more than 20 a n rod generally less Philadelphia Press |