EVERLASTING FENCE POSTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 2

EVERLASTING FENCE POSTS.

A farmer writes as follows:—I dis- ; covered some years ago that wood could jbe made to last longer in the ground ! than iron, but thought the process so j simple and inexpensive that it was not • worth while maiving any stir about it. I would as soon have poplar or ash as any other kind of timber for fence posts. I have taken out these posts after ha.v----j ing been set seven years, and they were !as sound then as when I first put them in the ground. The posts can be prepared for about one penny each. This is the recipe:—Take foiled linseed oil . and stir in it pulverised charcoal to the I consistency of paint. Put a coat of ! this over the timber —and there is not j a man living who will see it rotten.