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feet. A rod of wall may be two feet wide or ten feet wide, and 

 almost any given height, but always sixteen and a half feet 

 long. When walls are laid up dry, the faces or sides should be 

 laid battering, as they will stand much more permanently than 

 when the sides are built perpendicularly. When the stones are 

 mostly small and round, the faces should be laid more battering than 

 when nearly all flat stones are used. If the stones of which a 

 fence is to be made be nearly all large and flat ones, it is quite 

 as well to lay the faces perpendicularly, as battering. The most 

 important idea to be kept in mind in laying up a stone wall is, 

 to have all the stones laid in such a manner as to bind the wall 

 together, from face to face, so that the faces will not separate. 

 The following figures will enable the farmer to know, if he is not 

 a practical stone layer, whether a wall is laid up in a workman 

 like manner, or whether it is performed in a slighty, job-cheating 

 way. Fig. 69 represents a transverse section of a fence or stone 

 wall which is laid so as to bind the two faces together, and which 

 is done in a workmanlike manner. It will be perceived that 

 there are no large holes between the stones, and that they are all 

 laid flat, and not pitching this way and that way, and are laid so 

 as to bind from face to face. 



Fig. 70 shows a section of the same wall, and of the same size, 



FIG. 69. FIG. 70. 



A SECTION OF WALL WELL LAID. A SECTION OF WALL IMPROPERLY LAID. 



and having faces equally as good as Fig. 69, but which is laid up 

 verv slightly, with merely a row of stones for each face, while 

 the m/.-lik of the wall is filled with stones thrown in promiscu- 



