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and with three strands of barbed wire above this. The toj) 

 wires may be spaced 6, 8 and 10 inches respectively, working- 

 from the woven wire upward. A fence of this kind is 4} 2 feet 

 high. The barbed wires may be spaced a httle wider to make 

 the fence higher. Two barbed wires above sucli a strand of 

 woven wire will turn cattle, hogs and sheep. 



It is estimated that such a fence can be built at a cost of 

 about 60 cents per rod as follows: 



Woven wire— 30 inches $0. 30 



Post 0.10 



Three barbed wires 0. 10 



Labor 0.10 



Totnl SO. 60 



In some sections and at certain times it might cost a little 

 more than this to build such a fence but if one has the post 

 timber on his own farm it might be built for less. 



In building a fence it is well to set the posts 16,H feet or 1 

 rod apart. It is then an easy matter to calculate the area 

 within the enclosure or in any part of it. The post timber 

 should be w^ell seasoned. 



How to Build a Fence. — The posts should be cut and 

 sharpened during the winter while labor is cheap and plenti- 

 ful. They should then be well piled and allowed to dry 

 thoroughly through the following summer. The next spring 

 when the frost is out of the ground and the fence row has 

 l.)een staked out, one man goes ahead with a crowbar and 

 punches a hole in the ground where each post is to stand. 

 Following this man, come two other men on a wagon with 

 a fiat-bottomed rack. The sharpened posts are carried on 

 the wagon and each man has a post maul. The wagon is 

 stopped by the side of a hole made by the man with the crow- 

 bar. The post is set and driven down to the desired depth 

 by the men standing on the wagon. Posts should be set from 

 2 to 3 feet deep with the larger or sounder end down. The 

 corner posts should be larger than the others and should be 

 set in concrete. 



This same method of fence construction can also be used 



