THE YOUNG FARMER'S MANUAL. 



SLIDING BARS. 



SLIDING BARS, 



12. Represented at Fig. 28, are the most convenient style for 

 bars, especially where p IG . 28. 



bars are used very 

 often. Three bar- 

 posts are set so that = 

 the bar-holes will ex 

 actly range with 

 each other. Two 

 of them should be 

 set about four feet 

 apart, and two about 

 eleven or twelve feet 

 apart. The bars 

 shoul<^ be sawed true 

 and straight, and in opening the bar- way they can be pushed back, 

 as shown in the figure. Such bars are much more convenient 

 than those which must be let down or taken out when anything 

 is to pass through. 



113. Cattle, horses, and some other animals, sometimes acquire 

 the vice of letting the bars down, and thus opening the way to 

 forbidden ground. This may be prevented by boring a hole in 

 the bars on each side of one of the posts through which the bars 

 slide, and by putting in pins. This is better than to wedge the 

 bars in the mortises. 



114. Bar-posts (see SPLITTING BAR-POSTS, Fig. 12) should be 

 hewed out straight, as they are sometimes winding ; and all the 

 mortises should be parallel with each other. If the sides of a 

 bar-post are winding, an unskillful workman is very liable to make 

 the mortises crooked, or not parallel with each other, and the 

 consequence would be that the mortises in the different posts 

 would not range with each other. Good slabs, which are cut 

 from logs at saw-mills, will make good bar-posts. 



115. Fig. 29 represents the manner of making a bar-post so as 



