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THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



or about fifty cents per rod. This cost could be materially re- 

 duced in many cases, as I have figured every thing at retail 

 prices. I recently bought a lot of large split locust posts for 

 this purpose at half price because they were crooked. 



I have recently examined a combined fence which is giving 

 excellent satisfaction, in which the posts are sixty-six feet 

 apart. Sawed oak stakes two inches square are driven a foot 



FENCE WITH POSTS SIXTY-SIX FEET APART. 



into the ground every six feet and the wires are stapled to these 

 stakes, and between the two upper wires a strip of board three 

 inches wide is nailed to the stakes. These are not continuous, 

 but each board is nailed to two stakes and is independent of 

 the others. This fence looks well and turns stock perfectly. 

 In making wire fence of any kind the end posts must be 



thoroughly braced. Set large 

 posts deep and firm for the 

 ends, and at the distance of 

 eight or ten feet from them set 

 others. Then cut a notch 

 near the top of your end 

 post, and cut your brace so 

 that the bottom will set 

 against the second post, just below the surface of the ground. 

 This brace should be of lasting timber and well fitted. 



There is another form of combined wire and board fence be- 

 ing built which 

 turns all stock 

 even pigs. In 

 this fence two 

 boards are used 



at the bottom and two barbed wires above. With this fence 

 only one long post is needed to each two panels of fourteen 

 or sixteen feet each. A short post, projecting two feet above 



HOW TO BRACE A POST. 



COMBINED WIRE AND BOARD FENCE. 



