Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1917 — VACANT LAND ALONG FENCES [ARTICLE]

VACANT LAND ALONG FENCES

Not Many Farmers Ever Think of Amount of Waste Strips on Either Side of Barriers. —Few farmers stop to think how much land Is taken up by the fences. The fence itself takes little room, but it is Impossible to-grow anything fGr several feet on both sides of the fence. The department of agriculture reports that the ordinary rail fence occupies a strip over 12 feet wide. About 3,600 feet of such a fence takes up an acre of land. Hedges take up a little more than the rail fence, the width varying according to the width of the hedge row.