| Show lower r fencing cost cast with large larg e fields irregular regu lar enclosures have OTy t too many comers fencing aing small arre irregular ular fields I 1 Is an ee expensive operation according to J 1 I falco falconer ner cha chairman r man T of the department of rural burhl economics n ic at the ohio state university who finds that tor for roost most kinds of general farming the ahe odds fields should bo be at least 40 rods long I 1 i rectangular fields tand land small fields require more fencing per acre than square or fields with fields of the same shape lie he states the lar larger er the field the fewer rods of fence to the ithe acre iacre are required to enclose it and a proportionally smaller area of i tillable land Is occupied by fences A square field of one acre would require 50 rods offense offence of fence oneff one 0 20 acres rods of fence per acre while a square field of 40 acres could be fenced with nith eight rods of fence per acre if the width of land occupied by fences in the one acre and 40 acre field were uniform the amount of wa waste ste land due to fences would be more imore than six times as much in the one acre as in the 40 acre field falconer says A square field of oc ten acres requires IGO rods of fence a rectangular field i of f ten acres ts 28 by 56 rods requires rods of fence and a rectangular field 20 by SO 80 rods requiring requires rods of fence it if the fields are not to be fenced this alsa disadvantage advantage of the rectangular field need not be considered irregular fields are especially wasteful ol of fencing and land and uneconomical to operate they have too many corners too many short rows and too many corner posts |
