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through the stakes in holes as in the figure. Wire as small as 

 number twelve would be sufficiently large for this purpose. 

 After the stakes are all driven, there should be two or three fur 

 rows plowed on each side of the fence and cast up against the 

 stakes with a shovel, and grass seed sowed on it. "When such a 

 fence is made of durable timber, well seasoned and well made, it 

 will need no repairing, ordinarily, for a score of years. 



STAKE AND RIDER FENCE. 



106. At Fig. 26 the ordinary mode of finishing a worm fence 

 with stakes and riders is shown. The stakes are set about one 

 foot deep in the ground, the holes having been dug with a pick, 

 about from eighteen FIG. 26. 



to thirty inches from 

 the fence, according 

 to the size of the 

 rails and the height 

 of the fence, before 



it is Staked, and the STAKE AND RIDER FE.VCE. 



amount of worm which is given it in laying the foundation. 

 The higher the fence is before it is staked, and the larger the 

 riders are, and the more worm there is, the farther the foot of 

 the stakes must be set from the fence. The dotted lines show 

 the position of the stakes ; and it will be discovered, that at 

 every alternate corner of the fence they are placed with the 

 opposite sides together. This is a very important consideration in 

 staking a fence of this style, which men of experience well 

 understand, but which the beginner does not always perceive 

 very readily ; and those who do not understand the practical 

 importance of it place every pair of stakes alike, and the conse 

 quence is, the spaces between the riders are very much too wide. 

 We will suppose, for instance, -that in making a fence like the 

 figure, we commence at a certain point and work west. The 

 stakes on the north side of the fence a a a must be placed on 

 the east side of those on the south side, and the stakes at b b 

 must be placed on the west side of those on the south side of the 



