Valuable Farm Fences.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 May 1911, Page 4

Valuable Farm Fences.

# -..^.—- A curious statement from Tennessee is to the effect that old rod cedar reil fences in that State now furnish the world's main supply of wood for cedar pencils. So vamablc are these old fences, some ot which were put up nearly a cent'iry ago in districts where 'magnificent cedar forests once stood, that the": selling price is four times as as the cost of providing a good ire fence. In one case a farm, abandoned for agricultural purposes, was bought by a speculator for 4 * 00 dollars, and in months ne had sold cedar rails from the fences for 7200 dollars. A few farmers who possess these fences refuse to sell them because, it as said, cedar long outlasts iron.—Farmer snd Stockbreeder.