Wood Preservation.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17238, 19 April 1930, Page 11

Wood Preservation.

Th(* question of fencing timbers is one that is exercising the mi nils of many farmers to-day. Farms that were well fenced when they were first broken in, and when good timber was cheap and plentiful, are now faced with expensive post and batten bills when it conies to repairing existing fences and erecting new subdivisions. Farmers who go in for topdressing should have their farms well subdivided, and this calls for a fencing outlay that often deters the landowner from, topdressing as extensively as lie would desire, in latter years many farmers have planted extensively, but the trees are not yet ready tu use for posts and battens. On j many farms where the good lot urn lots jail been used there remains an abundance. of less durable timber, and | thoughts have now turned to timber preservatives. The recent very in ■creased sales of Foterlineum in this [district point to the fact that second- ’ class timbers are being treated and j great ly,used. One big farmer has had 40,000 pi mis insignia battens split and is treating them with wood preservative at a cost of about 4.s per. 100. Another sheepfarmcr who has had his ' place equipped for years with hardwood gates has found that where the bolts go through the material rots. ; There appears to be some property in | hardwood that creates fairly rapid i rust when in contact with iron-work. I This farmer now is using white pine 'treated with wood preservative, fie maintains the gates will last longer ; and being lighter and more springy will give far greater service. The treating of slieepvards, hurdles and woolsheds with wood preservative is rapidly becoming a general practice , for farmers, who realist* - that the first i cost of (realmen! is much cheaper i than subsequent early and continuous [repair bills.*