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to this fence save the expense of labor in building it. When a 

 post and bar fence is built of durable timber, and in a workman 

 like manner, it will stand without any repairing as long, and per 

 haps longer, than almost any other rail fence. 



POST AND BAIL FENCE 



110. Is made similar to post and bar fence, only in this style : 

 A round tenon is made on each end of all the rails, which are well 

 driven into round holes in the posts. When a fence is built in 

 this manner, the tenons should be well smeared with coal tar or 

 paint, to exclude the wet, as in such places they would be very 

 liable to decay in a few seasons if unpainted. 



A post and rail fence may be made a self-sustaining fence by 

 boring the holes in round sticks for corner posts, at such an angle 

 that the rails of each panel will be about the same angle of an or 

 dinary rail fence. But we would not advise the builder to at 

 tempt to erect such a self-sustaining fence, for he would most 

 assuredly wish, in a few years, that he had never seen such a 

 fence. There are several other styles of rail fence, which we have 

 not adverted to, because we do not consider them worthy of 

 adoption. 



BARS AND BAR-POSTS. 



111. Bars should always be made of light timber when they 

 are made to be let down, so that children can put them up with 

 out difficulty. The lightest rails should be selected for bars, 

 when the rails are being overhauled, so that no time may be lost 

 in searching for them when they are needed. The neatest bars 

 are made by having a log of some light timber sawed into bars 

 about an inch and a half thick by four or five wide ; one log will 

 make a large lot of them. Bar-posts should be not less than 

 eleven or twelve feet apart, as that amount of space is none too 

 great to allow a load of hay or grain, or some of the implements 

 of the farm, to pass through freely. 



