The Canadian farm annual for 1880 published in Connection with the Weekly Mail (1880)
Weekly Mail, Toronto · Toronto, The Mail 88 p. illus. 22 cm · leaf 23
ost neverdecays below till long after it is rotted at the surface of the earth, it need not be solarge at the lower end. But a serious difficulty results from the impossibility ofsetting such posts in a straight line, both the crowbar holes and the sharpeningoften placing them an inch or two on one… … Fig. 22. To make a durable, handsome, and perfect fence, the earth should be firmlybeaten down with an iron-shod rammer, as it is shovelled in by small portions at atime, keeping the post accurately in position against a stretched cord or two cords.A post thus set should stand as firmly in the…
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