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THE YOUNG FARMER'S MANUAL. 



first slab above the ground should be elevated just as high as 

 the fence is to be made, and as the other slabs are laid in the 

 crotch of the stakes, care must be exercised to keep them all of 

 about the same inclination as the first one that was put up. If, 

 for instance, one has been making fence of slabs sixteen feet 

 long, and wishes now to use slabs twelve feet in length, in order 

 to have the fence of a uniform height, the slabs twelve feet long 

 must be placed more perpendicularly than those sixteen feet in 

 length. Let the builder always remember to place the largest 

 end of a slab in the ground. 



THE PAEK FENCE. 



105. Fig. 25 is a representation of a fence which will turn 

 almost anything that ought to have its liberty in the fields. This 

 fence, where timber is cheap, is the cheapest fence that can be 

 built, for a high fence. The first step in building it is, to plow a 



FIG. 25. 



PARK FE.VCK. 



clear, according to the size 

 side of the tops should be 



deep trench, and then 

 make holes with a crow 

 bar in it, as far apart as 

 the stakes are to be 

 stuck. Have a long 

 plank bench, standing 

 by the side of the fence, 

 and let one man put the 

 stakes in the holes and 

 hold them perpendicu 

 larly, while another man 

 drives them. The stakes 

 may be from three to 

 eight inches apart, in the 

 of the animals to be turned. One 



kept in perfect range, so that 



a narrow strip of board may be nailed to each of them. At the 

 distance of about every ten or twelve feet, a stake two or three 

 feet longer than the rest should be set, for holding wires, which 

 may be fastened to the stakes with staples, or they may pass 



