Jacques' new manual of the garden, farm and barnyard, embracing practical horticulture, agriculture, and cattle, horse and sheep husbandry by Jacques Daniel Harrison 1825-1877

Author:Jacques, Daniel Harrison, 1825-1877. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Gardening
Publisher: New York, The American news company
Published: 1870-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

stakes, about three dollars per hundred. It takes fourteen rails and four stakes per rod for a worm fence; in round numbers, it costs one dollar per rod. This would be three hundred and twenty dollars per mile, and there were seven miles of fence, making two thousand two hundred and forty dollars for the fencing material. Now, add to this first cost the price of hauling, of setting up, or keeping in repair, of decay, and of the waste of land occupied. If you pay for bringing these rails to their proper places and putting them up, the first cost of material will be three thousand dollars. First cost of material and work, three thousand dollars; interest at six per cent., one hundred and eighty dollars; annual decay, six per cent., one hundred and eighty dollars; annual repairs, three per cent., ninety dollars; loss of land, five per cent., one hundred and fifty dollars. Annual cost, five hundred dollars.

" Could not this sum be better used?"

We suspect that in reference to large portions of the West, at least, the writer's closing question may be answered in the affirmative.

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