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THE YOUNG FARMER'S MANUAL. 



of this style, to keep it from sagging, as without one the arms 

 may bow upwards more or less. 



A PICKET GATE FOR A LAWN ENTRANCE. 



253. Fig. 91 represents a very good style for a picket gate, 

 FIG. 91. 



A GATE WITH SQUAKK PICKETS. 



and it may be made in two parts, or whole, as represented by the 

 cut. The hinge stile is three by four or five inches, the latch 

 stile two by three inches, the arms two by three, and the pickets 

 about an inch and one-fourth square. The arms are about two 

 feet apart, and the longest picket extends twenty inches above 

 the upper arm, and the shortest ones about eight inches above it. 

 The ends of the stiles are pointed also. The bottom board may 

 be close to the lower arm, or two or three inches below it. 



254. In making such a gate, make the mortises in the upper 

 arm smooth and true through the arm, and dress out the pickets 

 one inch and a fourth square, and point them in the vise, with 

 drawing-knife and plane. Drive in the longest one first, and then 

 extend a line from the point of it to the point of the stiles, and 

 drive in the others. Let them be dressed so that they will fill 

 the mortise water-tight. When they are all in, nail them, and 

 saw off the lower ends, and drive on the lower arm, and it will 

 be then ready for the stiles and bottom board. Let the tenons 

 and parts of pickets in the arms be well painted, before putting 

 them together. Hang it with hinges, which may be bolted to the 

 stile and arm, like Fig. 84. I have been thus explicit on this 



