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laid on them, to keep them from being moved ; or it will stand 

 very firmly itself. But if fence posts of cedar, or yellow locust, 

 or of some other durable timber, can be obtained for twelve or 

 fifteen cents apiece, it will be the most economical, in the end, to 

 build a fence like Fig. 49, with posts, instead of a self-sustaining 

 fence, like Fig. 50, unless a portable fence is desired. 



SELF-SUSTAINING PORTABLE ZIGZAG PATENT PICKET FENCE, OR 



HURDLES. 



174. Fig. 52 shows a style of picket fence which was secured by 

 letters patent in 1858, and which appears to take well where it is 

 introduced. The rails are about twelve feet long and two inches 



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SELF-SUSTAINING PORTABLE PICKET PENCE, OB HPBDLES. 



square, of hard timber, and the pickets are two inches wide, 

 pointed or not, with spaces to suit the builders. Each picket is 

 nailed on with four nails, and the ends of rails are fastened to 

 gether by pins of wood or iron, which are driven through two of 

 them. The panels are all made in the shop, and care is taken to 

 have the pickets nailed on at a right angle with the rails. The 

 holes at the ends of the rails are bored straight through, in order 

 to correspond with each other. If the pins are of iron, a rod 

 three-eighths of an inch in diameter is large enough, or a three- 

 quarter wooden pin. The panels are set up in a zigzag manner, 

 with a worm of three or four feet, with flat stones under the cor 

 ners ; and if it does not warp and twist, and settle off sideways in a 



