Show preservative MEASURES ada ADVISED FOR FENCE POSTS surface life of aspen fence posts can be extended 10 years by using treatments costing ten cents or less per post declared professor J whitney floyd extension forester at the utah state agricultural college upon his return from wasatch county this week w where here he has been giving fence post preservation demonstrations farmers in rich summit and wasatch counties who have been usi using ng aspen posts in the construction of fences have found that the average life of the he untreated post is three years reported professor floyd this makes replacement costs rather high I 1 however aspen posts treated by the osmo plastic method will last from 12 to 15 years pointed out the extension forester another treatment the brush cleote method will increase the surface of the post to six or eight years professor floyd stated that the os mo plastic treatment costs about loc per post while the inrush creosote method co costs 9 ts only three to four cents for each post this means that considerable money can bs saved in m replacement costs by farmers who use this type of post declared c professor floyd the osmos plastic is a ground line treatment and is particularly sui suitable t able for use on green posts explained the tha extension forester the creosote method is better for treating seasoned wood farmers who desire more information on the procedure involved in applying these preservations may obtain iha booklet the tha preservative treatment of farm timber by writing to L II 11 manwaring SIan county agent at randolph ask for farmers bulletin no |