Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 16, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 4 October 1946 — FENCE REPAIR HEADS EARLY WINTER SCHEDULE [ARTICLE]

FENCE REPAIR HEADS EARLY WINTER SCHEDULE

Fence repair will head early winter work schedules on Indiana Farms. Farmers having black locust, osage orange or red cedar on their farms have the ideal pots, but the average central Indiana farmer will either need to purchase posts or use softer matererials from his own woods. These softer species are more liable to decay and, if they are used, J. L. Van Camp. Purdue University extension forester recommends that they be treated with a good preservation in order to avoid replacement in a few years. A new material pentachlophenal has been found successful for the cold soak method of application

of preserving fence posts and is now carried by most of the farm supply stores. The material as purchased is in concentrated form and may be diluted with kerosene. The posts which are soaked 24 hours in this solution in an oil durm or in some other similar tank airranemengt have been found to be as well preserved as those treated with the hot and cold creosote bath method. It should be noted that only the non-resistant woods should be treated. Good black locust, osage orange, or good heartwood of red cedar do not require treatment since the benefits are too small to pay for the added cost. However, when using such woods as red oak or even softer species such as cotton wood, sycamore,

baswood or elm, this treatmert is definitely recommended, says Van Camp. The old direction concerning the use of crosote were not generally followed because of the difficulty of this process. Creo-

sote is successfully used by corr._ mercial firm with large presure treatment equipment, but th- ho: and cold bath treatment recommended for farm use was too dangerous for general farm ap. plication. «