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THE BOD FENCE, 



101. Is a great favorite among some farmers because of its 

 substantiality. This kind of fence is made like the zigzag 

 stake and rail fence, with an iron rod passing through all the 

 rails at the joints. Iron rods, from three to four-eighths of an 

 inch in diameter, and about four and a half feet long, are set in 

 a fence block two or three inches deep, and then a hole about 

 three-fourths of an inch in diameter is bored through each end 

 of all the rails, after which they are slipped on the rods. To save 

 rails, pieces of rails may be sawed up about four or six inches 

 long, and bored and put on the rods. It is not necessary that 

 the rods be made very tight in the fence blocks, for the force 

 of anything against the fence is merely in a horizontal direction, 

 and when all the rails are laid up the fence will resist quite as 

 great a force if the rods enter the blocks loosely, as when they 

 are made tight. 



102. When boring the rails, some eight or ten of them should 

 be laid on two benches, and the holes made at an equal distance, 

 measuring with a thin strip of board, or the like. The holes 

 should be at least one-third larger than the rods, and care and 

 skill must be exercised in boring them, and have them true with 

 each other. If one hole slant a little one way and the other hole 

 be straight through, or slant a little in another direction, it will 

 be very difficult getting the rails on the rods, on account of their 

 binding on the rods. If it were desired, a head could be made 

 on the lower ends of the rods and a nut and screw on the upper 

 ends, and they could pass through the blocks and rails and be 

 screwed up tight. Let a small hole be drilled in stone blocks for 

 the end of the rod. 



OR GUN FENCE. 



103. A section of which is represented by Fig. 24, is made 

 with small stakes and short pieces of rails, or it may all be made 



