102 THE YOUNG FARMER'S MANUAL. 



122. Fig. 30 represents a style of board fence which will 

 turn, most effectually, horses, horned cattle, sheep, lambs and 

 swine, if they are not incorrigibly unruly, and which, in the 



judgment of our civil fence 



law, would be considered 



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IB I I 10 II the highway side or be- 



I 7 IT tween the adjoining farms. 



4Xt |*| 5 n''| | Some of our great sticklers 

 ~ - TT - -JL - ITT for wide boards at the bot- 



l ** 1 _*.._ W.*j._. torn may take some excep 

 tions to it; but if fields are 

 inclosed with such a fence, 

 the proprietor, and all the 

 HIGHWAY BIDB BOARD FENCE, FouB AND A HALF force of the farm, may lie 

 FEET HIGH - down to rest without en 

 tertaining any fears that any of their animals will get on forbid 

 den ground through or over such a fence. It will be seen by the 

 figure that it is fifty-three and a half inches high, including the 

 cap board, and if that were one and a half inches thick, which 

 would be economy, the fence would be four and a half feet high. 

 The posts are set eight feet apart, from centre to centre, perpen 

 dicularly, and a line struck on the sides of the posts for the top 

 board, according to the manner shown at paragraph 152 ; and if 

 but one workman is employed in building the fence, to aid in 

 holding up the ends of the boards he will find it very advanta 

 geous to use two gauge boards, like Fig. 31, which are very im 

 portant in building a board fence, in order to prevent mistakes in 

 the spaces. When two such boards are used, the lower ends can 

 be set on the ground, and the top fastened near the top of a post, 

 by driving in a nail a little, just sufficient to hold it while all the 

 boards of one panel are being put up ; two such boards would be 

 of far more practical utility to a good workman, than any two 

 boys from the Emerald Isle, because the gauge boards would al 

 ways hold them in the right place. The boards should "break 

 joint" on every alternate post, because it renders a fence stronger 



