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arc put ; but this method, and any other variation, as well 

 as log fences, will be best known on the spot. The 

 above rail, stake, and rider fence is the ordinary one- 

 We need not refer to a brush fence, to protect a crop of 

 grain or potatoes, as it is not worthy the consideration of 

 an industrious settler. 



FENCING THE PRAIRIES. 



BY JA.MES T. GIFFORD. 



When a new settler makes a beginning on the prairie, 

 the first object that calls for his attention is fencing. And 

 the first objection raised by an eastern man to the prai- 

 ries of the West is, that there is not sufficient timber for 

 fencing. Much of this land must lie unoccupied for gene- 

 rations for want of fencing. Now, Messrs. Editors, I am 

 about to submit a plan by which the amount of timber we 

 now have, may be nmde to go much farther, and also by 

 which good fence may be made of timber raised from the 

 seed, or transplanted, in a few years. Having tried several 

 experiments within the last five years, with a view to make 

 the greatest amount of good fence from a given quantity 

 of timber, and that with the least labor ; I have concluded 

 that the following plan of construction, illustrated by the 

 accompanying model, on the scale of one and a half 

 inches to the foot, is decidedly the best I have tried. 1 

 make the fence of either sawed or split stuff. Posts and 



