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space, with a ditch beneath the wall, would be much cheaper 

 and subserve a better purpose. 



HALF WALL 



198. In localities where stone is not very abundant, and where 

 there is some fencing timber, a very good, economical, and dura 

 ble fence can be made by laying a stone wall two or three feet 

 high, according to the amount of stone at hand, and then by 

 staking and finishing with two or more rails, as may be necessary 

 to make it of sufficient height to turn stock. Some farmers finish 

 their stone fence by laying on the top of the wall long poles, 

 say twenty or thirty feet in length, and then staking it, and after 

 wards laying on heavy poles for riders. 



199. Another mode of building half wall fence is, to set the 

 posts as for a whole board fence, and then lay up the wall about 

 hah as high as the fence is to be made, and then nail on the two 

 top boards. If the boards should be nailed on before the stone 

 are laid up, they will be very much in the way of the workmen. 



200. Another manner of finishing a half wall fence is, to set 

 the posts, and, after the wall is laid up, fasten rails to the posts 

 with wires, as shown by Fig. 22, paragraph 94, skeleton fence. 

 When this mode is adopted, rails may be used, or poles twenty 

 feet long, instead of rails". 



A CHEAP WALL OF QUARRIED STONE. 



201. Whenever stone are quarried expressly for a fence, and 

 they can be taken from the quarry from one to two feet wide, and 

 from two to eight or ten feet in length, a small amount of stone 

 may be made to build a long line of fence, in the following man 

 ner, which will stand firmly as long as one man will need the 

 advantages of a good fence, and subserve as good purpose as 

 those walls in which there are three or four times the amount of 

 stone. 



202. If the soil where the wall is to be built is at all inclined 

 to be a little wet, let a ditch be made as directed (paragraph 

 195), and then throw up a ridge of earth over the ditch not less 



