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ASHES on LIME AROUND PosTs.-Where the articles are plenty and cheap, il is good economy to put some lime or ashes around the posts of fences to prevent rotting. In some dry soils, posts will become so rotten in four or five years that they are easily bro ken of at the surface of the ground, while the tops will last for fifty years.

 It seems proper, therefore. to take some care to prevent the rapid decay of posts just at the surface of the soil, where they are most exposed to alternate moisture and drought. Ii is this frequent wetting and drying that causes such rapid decay; for posts set in wet meadow will hold sound at the bottom longer than al the top And posfs in a moist clayey soil will last three times as long as n adryish gravel or sand. Posts kept perfectly wet or dry, will last longest.

 Worms are often found in timber at the surface of the ground, and they assistin weak ening the timber Perhaps 1t is owing to thi; that ashes are so useful in preserving the 1 posts when set in the ground.

 Whether it will pay cost to place some sub stance, as ashes, lime, charcoal or cinder around the foot of posts in common CT eteal fences, each owner can determine. But m; costly garden fence we are fully satisfied tha much may be saved. Any kind of post vii last twice as long in dry ground, with ashe; about the bottom of 1t, as without ashes- l Now is the time of year to make the trial.

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