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there is a width of twenty-two and a half inches, but about a foot 

 difference in the height of the fences. The builder can choose 

 either, or reject both, or make the spaces a little wider or nar 

 rower, to suit his caprice. 





DIVISION FENCE. 



124. Fig. 33 represents a style of board fence which almost 

 every farmer likes, because of its efficiency and cheapness and 

 durability. It is four and a half feet high, with boards sixteen 

 33 or more feet long, and four 



and a half inches wide, 

 and only three to a panel. 

 " The spaces are the same 

 ^ as in the fence at Fig. 30. 

 There are no cap boards to 

 this fence. The great ex 

 cellence of this fence con 

 sists in its permanence, and 

 the facility with which it 

 can be made. The posts 

 are set as shown at Fig. 34 ; and any one can see at a glance 

 that such a mode of setting posts will render a fence far more 

 substantial, and much less liable to be made to lean either way 

 by any influence which causes a fence to deviate from a perpen- 



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DIVISION FENCE. 



FIG. 34. 



MANNER OF SETTING FENCE FOOTS FOR A DIVISION FENCE. 



dicular position. The boards of each panel are independent of 

 each other ; they may all be put up without any sawing off In 

 making a fence of this style, all the posts at the ends of the 



