Show retarding fence pot post rot rat fence posts give considerable trouble owing to the rapidity with which the lumber rots in the moist ground many expensive fences have been completely destroyed bemuse because of tills this condition it if proper precaution had been taken they would have lusted lasted for many years the posts rot oft off nt at the point where they enter the ground considerable success lias has resulted from a treatment of creosote or point paint application and then concreting to a depth of about inches below the surface and six inches above TI tills I 1 Is presents the moisture from froin attacking attaching the posts lit at tills this point |