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the best distance apart for posts for a wire fence, as I have seen 

 them all the way from eight up to fifty feet or more. I believe, 

 however, that a good post every two rods, with two or more 

 stays of some kind between, will be found sufficient. I think 

 that if a strip of board, of hard wood, three inches wide and 

 one inch thick, is used every six feet and the wire stapled, to it 

 it will support the wires sufficiently. 



I think a combined wire and board fence will be found cheap 

 and satisfactory, and where only a cattle fence is needed, two- 

 wires and a strip of board three inches wide between them is 

 all that will be required. The two wires alone will turn cattle, 

 but the strip of board renders the fence safer. There is prob- 

 ably no stock worse to fence against than town cows, and the 

 college campus in niy village has been fenced with two barbed 

 wires for several years, and I have never known the cattle 

 to trespass. 



My plan of making this fence with the three-inch strip of board 

 is this : Set the posts a little less than thirty -two feet apart, so 

 that when one end of a three-inch board sixteen feet long is 

 nailed to each post the other ends will lap a few inches. Be- 



WIRE AND BOARD CATTLE FENCE. 



tween the ends of the boards, set up a three-inch strip and put 

 a carriage bolt with washers through both boards and the up- 

 right. Then use one more of these uprights for each board. 

 These uprights should rest on a flat stone or block. The cost 

 of this fence would be about as follows for each panel of nearly 

 two rods : 



One post set, ........ 



Four pounds of barbed wire, ..... 



Five upright strips four feet long and three inches wide, 

 Two boards three inches wide and sixteen feet long, . 

 Bolt, staples, and putting up, . 



Total, 



30 cts. 

 28 " 

 12 " 



16 " 

 12 " 



99 " 



