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The side casings are six inches wide. This makes a case eight 

 inches square. If every alternate post is cased, the remainder 

 should be battened, as shown in the figure. There is no economy 

 in casing posts, and it is done merely to please the fancy. For 



FIG. 32. 



LAWN FENCE. 



my own part, I do not approve of casing but few posts ; and I 

 may be allowed to say, that the majority of people are quite as 

 well pleased with the appearance of such a fence, when only the 

 gate posts and those at the corners of the yard are cased, as when 

 every post or every second post is cased. It increases the expense 

 of a fence very much to case all the posts, and they are by no 

 means ornaments of good taste and of rural beauty. For a fence 

 which encircles a huge cathedral of the Corinthian style of archi 

 tecture, cased posts for a board fence would seem to be in better 

 taste and harmony than around a plain country residence of a 

 farmer. The fence, as represented by Fig. 32, is forty-five inches 

 high, including the cap board. There is one objection to it, 

 however, and that is, it is not high enough to suit most men. 

 But the eight-inch space might be .made two inches wider, and 

 the bottom board might be slit in two, and a space between the 

 two pieces thre"e inches wide. There is a width of boards, aside 

 from the cap in this fence, of twenty-two inches, and in Fig. 30 



