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E. NASH'S IMPROVED FENCE. 



Fig. 29^ represents a new style of straight rail fence, which 

 has but recently been invented by E. Nash, Auburn, N. Y. It 

 may be constructed of rails or of boards. If made of rails, flat 

 ten the ends a little, and cut them of a uniform length, and nail 



FIG. 29J. 



NASH'S IMPROVED FENCE. 



pieces of boards four feet long, and five or six inches wide to the 

 ends of the rails, as shown in the cut, allowing them to extend 

 leyond the ends of the rails half their width. Two boards are 

 required at each panel, one at each end, and on opposite sides. 

 Set the panels erect on flat stones, or other blocks, and put a 

 small carriage bolt through the upper ends of the braces, and 

 through the uprights, or nail them, and set the braces, which 

 may be made of pieces of rails, in the ground with a pick or 

 spade. Drive small stakes, if necessary, near the foot of the 

 uprights, to keep the bottom of the fence from being moved side 

 ways. This fence may be used for hurdles, or fencing stacks, or for 

 making pens for stock. When used for either of these purposes 

 long staples, passing through one of the uprights and fastened 

 by a wooden key, will hold the panels at the corners more con 

 veniently than bolts. It may be erected on rolling land, or up 

 and down slopes, as well as on level ground ; and is very cheaply 

 constructed, saving more than one-third the number of rails, and 

 is as durable as any other style of rail fence, and is not liable to 



