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Show mmm 4-H Club Tencer' Foils Post Decay Creosote Treated Posts Will Last Thirty Years Terry Liston, 17-year-old president presi-dent of South Carolina Four-H Clubs, has "snowballed" one well-known well-known conservation practice into triple savings savings of timber, money, and his own time and energy. Thinning a woodlot on his father's farm near Smoaks to allow healthier health-ier growth of the trees, Terry ended up with 700 fine fence posts. But he had noticed that pine fence posts rotted out in the ground faster than he cojild grow new ones. Presenting his problem to the local lo-cal county agricultural agent, Terry learned that pressure-treating the Assistant county agent J. R. White, Jr., inspects a few of the 700 fence posts produced by 4-H leader Terry Liston. They were later treated with creosote for longer life. posts with creosote would give them a life expectancy of more than 30 years. Although he realized that he was making an unusual request that normally nor-mally could not be filled, Terry contacted con-tacted a nearby Charle.on, S. C, wood treating plant and asked to have his posts pressure treated with creosate, along with ties and poles which Koppers treats for railroads and utilities. Word of Terry's attack on the farm fencing problem spread among the community with the result re-sult that other farmers have turned to use of the specially treated posts as a better farming method. |