84 THE YOUNG FARMER'S MANUAL. 



THE LOG, OR POLE FENCE. 



97. Fig. 23 shows the mode of building a fence with logs, or 

 large poles or rails ; they may be cut as long as they can be 

 handled conveniently. When a fence is made of logs, one end 

 of them should be spotted 



with an axe, so that they 



will not roll off at every 



touch of an animal. When 



one has lots of timber 



that is of but little value, & 



it may be worked into a 



fence in the logs, at very much less expense than to split it into 



rails. Logs thirty feet in length may be used for the two first 



tiers, and may be rolled to their places on the fence with a team. 



When k is one or two logs high it may be finished with heavy 



poles. 



98. When this kind of fence is made entirely of poles, the 

 cross panels may be made of the sound pieces of old rails, or of 

 pieces of poles. In either case the corners should be spotted, so 

 that they will not roll. 



99. When one has a large lot of sound pieces of old rails, 

 they may be used up to an advantage in building a rail fence in 

 this manner. When such a fence is made of rails, in order to 

 have it straight, stick a row of stakes, and lay one corner of the 

 fence in a line with the stakes, and cut the lower sticks, for the 

 short panels, about two and a half feet long and place the next 

 corner as far from the first as it will admit of, and lap a few inches 

 at each end, laying the short panels at a right angle with the 

 rails. As the tiers of rails are laid on, the ends should be laid 

 inwards a little, every tier towards each other, so that when the 

 fence is about five rails high the top rails will lay in a straight 

 line, with their ends side by side. The pieces for the short 

 panels should be shorter in length at each tier, and the top ones 

 may be 'not more than one foot long. This kind of fence should 

 always be staked, and after it is staked the ends of the rails will 



