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THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



setting, reverse /the process, rolling it out where it is to be set ; drive down the posts, and 

 then raise it and attach it to them. My fence cost $1.50 per rod, and it is a cheap mode of 

 handling or enclosing at that price." 



Prindle's Improved Field Fence. 



THE accompanying figures represent an improvement in 

 the construction of field fences, recently invented and pa- 

 tented by I\ R. Prindle, of East Bethany, Genesee co., N. Y. 



Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the fence embracing three 

 panels and posts, from 1 to 4 inclusive. Fig. 2 is a view 

 of one of the metal spikes which unite the panels. Fig. 3 

 is a view of fig. 2, embracing the form it assumes when the 

 panels have been united and set in position ; and fig. 4 is 

 a view of the wedge which is employed to secure the metal 

 connection. 



The nature of the invention consists in the mode of fas- 

 tening together the adjacent posts or standards of a field 

 fence, by passing a piece of metal having a head on one 

 end through two adjacent posts, and securing the same by 

 a wedge or its equivalent at the other end, the posts being 

 so bevelled as to cause any desired angle to be made by the 

 separate panels. 



Fig. 1 is a perspective view of three panels of this fence, 

 embracing three different kinds combined, as at A B C, and 

 posts or standards, 1 to 4 inclusive ; A is narrow board, 

 (five inches wide,) one inch thick, connected to posts 1 and 

 2 by mortising ; B a square rail (two and a half inches) 

 or pole, inserted into posts by boring only ; C a panel made 

 by nailing, as at posts 3 and 4, nailed upon reversed sides, 

 the posts being differently sawed ; c c are small metal con- 

 nections one-fourth to five-sixteenths of an inch in diame- 

 ter, and passing through the adjacent posts 123, and con- 

 necting the different panels ABC, firmly supporting the 

 same; w w are small wedges or keys two and a half 

 inches long, driven into the posts to secure the whole, firmly 

 locking each pair of posts alternately, and forming a lever 

 upon each side ; are holes in the posts for the above 

 metal connections, and also represent the heads of the 

 same ; b b b are narrow boards nailed firmly to the middle 

 of each panel or length. To take down or remove this 

 fence, withdraw the wedges w w. 



Fig. 5. 



This fence is designed to be set up a little crooked or at 

 any desired angle, as is shown "by fig. 5. It can also be 

 used straight by staking, etc., or in a continuous circle, foi 



