Nebraska advertiser., 1872-12-26
THE FENCE QUESTION.
rCnntinnel from last week.1

the exclusive mode, except in the vi
cinity OF the better class of buildings.
Garden fences are usually OF palings.
In returns from thirty-seven counties
in North Carolina, there is only one
record Of post and rail fence, 10 per
cent in Sampson county; and in
Chowan one half is board fence. In
Caldwell the Van Buren, fence il
coming into Use; the worm feet in
width, panels ) TO ID feet long. a
very little Of .tone-wall and OF other
kinds appears in few of the reports.
The proportion of worm fence IL 50
per cent. In south Carolina the pro
portion of cr0Oked-rail fence rise. To
9S: It Is % in Georgia and 81 in FlOri-
da. In the latter state, stone l. placed
at 10 per cent. in Gwiunett. and hedge
of Cherokee rose IL reported Ia Wiikr-
and Monroe. The reported height
varies from 1 TO feet in South Caro-
lima; in most Of the counties 1! and ),
and more reports place the height OF
North Carolina fences at , to D feet
than from TO ). Georgia, which
represents fairly all this section,
makes the average height feet in
nineteen counties, 81 feet In ak
counties, feet in siI counties, - feet
in four counties, and feet in two
counties. Five feet is the legal height
fixed for fences in most n not all Of
the cotton States. The proportion OF
worm-fencc in Alabama j, 80 per cent.
10 per cent. representing many kinds,
10 one of which has much prOmi-
nence in any locality, except board
fence in Colbert, 20 per cent, and
post and rail in Montgomery, 10 per
cent. Osage-hedge is marked 10 per
cent. in Montgomery. The height ot
fences is placed quite uniformly at A.
and ) feet in this State. For posts,
chestnut, oak, aud heart-pine are
much used.
In Mississippi % per cent. are worm
fences, the remainder Usage and rose
hedges, wire, board, and post and rail;
Claiborne county having p per cent.
OF the latter Half of the counties re-
port all worm-fences. In Claiborne,
post aud rail fence is made by setting
two posts, dropping the rails between,
and fastening with caps; wire fence,
by stretching wire upon posts eight
feet apart, with rail or slab-cap from
post TO post.
Only about twO-thiTds of the inclO-
sures of Louisiana are surrounded
with the Virginia fence. In the par
ish of La Fayctte all fences are post
and rail. There are many hedges OF
Cherokee and Mccartney rose, and or
osage-orange. In the Creole section,
a fence made of cypress, and known
as PiCllC fence, is the prevailing style,
as i'm Iberia where nOOthers Is known,
and I'm Saint Landry it amounts to 90
per cent. of the aggregate fencing. Ii
f. ) 20 D feet high. Slabs Of cypress,
feet i'm length. are split from the
circumference of the log. in size about
10 by inches, one of which is NOR
tised Us a post, for every four tenOned.
to be used as boards, making a rough
but strong and durable board fence.
In West Feliciana, nesrly all inclo-
eures are surrounded by Cherokee
rose hedges; and they were so effect
ual and popular that most planters
cut down all wood except what they
reserved for fires and plantation re-
pairs. They died out during the war,
probably from frost. and now poles
and other m8ke-shifts aro common,
and every year the destruction of a
portion of the crops results. Sugar
planters on the river often fence only
on the levee.
Worm-fence constitutes three
fourths Of all fencing in Texas. Rail,
board, brush, and picket are styles
frequently employed, and Usage
orange, or BOis d' Are, from its en-
ployment in making bows Is used in
many portions of the State as live
fedce. Cedar, live-oak. and mesquite
are used for posts. The latter, Prose-
Dis (AI0dr0bia( gIdndUIOSd, is used eX-
tensively in brush-fence. Dltches, D
feet deep, 6 feet wide at top, and ) feet
Mt bottom, the earth thrown up on
the side of the field inclosed, are made
where timber for fencing cannot Toe
obtained readily. In some counties
there is only a small area incloSed +;
mot one rod to one hundred acres" in
Hardin. There are sections where
stone is obtainable for walls; one-fifth
of the fences of LampasaS being made
OF that material. In De Witt Mex
lean fence is buiit, constructed of logs
and brush, piled together Is inches in
thickness, between parallel rows of
posts, feet long, set Is inches in the
ground, and 3 feet apart. \ citizen of
Williamson county proposes the pres
ent season to fence five thousand acres
with wire, for pasturage.
The worm - almost the exclusive
ence of Arkansas, not more than two
>er cent. of other kinds being used
seuerally ) feet high: in some cases
ess. very rarely more. Tennessee has
( 85 per cent. of the prevailing style ::
Giiee has Is per cent. of post and rail
and 1e per cent. of stone wall; Hay
wood 20 per cent. of hath and orange
hedge, and small proportion of 9TH
or kinds is found scattered through
the State.
In West Virginia the worm fence
an1ounts 10 IS per cent. the remain
der being Of almost all kinds in use !;
some having but seven to nine rails To
the panel In Kentucky about the
same pso1ortion, from 4 to 5I feet
high. with past and rail, board, and
etone, or S per cent. of each. Worm
fenoes. Of eight TO ten rails TO the pam
81. are common.
In fortY-seveu counties in Ohio, the
perceo taRa Of Worm-fence is also
about IS. boerd-fence about 10 per
cent. post and rail, stone, picket,
hodge and patent fences making the
remainder. The height In most To-
caiitiee u from a to S feet. The pro-
portion of Worm-zence ia Michigan is
about foS3f~4fkbe, hoard being also
used quite geno<oIly, with a small
amounf ct stone, bfush. log, and 9TH
er atruct4ees. and sometimes hedging.
The height . in moet counties A feet.
Indiana, which ii we'll Wooded, uses
the Virginia ety1e Tor {our-fifths of
al fencing. In Lake county there is
little else than beard d-foaos, so per
per cent. 10 Newton. - a Warren,