PRESERVING WOOD POSTS.
A writer in an old American building magazine says “ I discovered many years ago that wood could be made to last longer than iron in the ground. I would as soon have poplar, basswood, or ash as any other kind of timber for fence posts. I have taken out bass-wood posts after they have been set for seven years, and found them as sound when taken out as when first put in the ground. Time and weather seemed to have no effect on them. The posts can be prepared for a cent or two each. This is the recipe : Take boiled linseed oil, and stir in pulverised coal to the consistency of paint.”
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Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 32, 4 August 1911, Page 4
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116PRESERVING WOOD POSTS. Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 32, 4 August 1911, Page 4
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