A farmer’* many years ago discovered that wood can be made to last longer than iron in the ground. Time and weather seemed to have no effect on timber. The posts can be prepared for less than Id each. This is the recipe: .Take boiled linseed oil and stir in pulverised coal till the mixture has the consistency of paint. Then apply. This sounds simple* and may be worth a trial .It is presumed the reason is that it is practically a deposit of indestructible carbon on the wood* the same effect .that is got by charring.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3356, 24 October 1911, Page 7
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97Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3356, 24 October 1911, Page 7
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