FENCING PLANTATIONS. 



grown timber, it is well that such should be employed as 

 widely as possible. The rustic appearance of wooden fences 

 is also much preferred by many owners of property to those 

 erected either of stone or iron. 



Wooden fences are, therefore, sure to be largely employed 

 when the appearance of the property and not too-exacting 

 financial results are points of importance. 



There are many forms of wooden fences adopted, these 

 varying chiefly according to the particular use to which they 

 are applied ; and the following descriptions are only of such 

 kinds as are generally in use for woods and plantations. 

 Here it might be well to mention that only matured and 

 seasoned timber should be used in fencing, the cost of 

 erection, whether of good or inferior wood, being alike, and 

 everyone knows which will last longest. 



A good strong fence is erected as follows : Posts, 

 5 ft. 9 in. long, 4 in. broad, and 2 J in. thick ; bars or rails, 

 9 ft. long, by 3 \ in. by 1 J in. Four holes are mortised in to the 

 posts for the reception of the bars, the ends of which are so 

 formed as to overlap each other tightly. The fence is 

 usually 4 ft. high, and so as to strengthen the horizontal 

 bars a stake is driven into the ground midway between the 

 larger posts, and to which the rails are securely nailed. In 

 some cases the posts are not mortised, so that the bars 

 require to be attached by nails. 



For park clumps, particularly where a substantial and neat 

 fence to keep back horses, cattle, or deer is required, the 

 following, though rather expensive at first, is largely 

 employed. The entire fence is made of oak or Spanish 

 chestnut as shown on following page. 



Posts 7 ft. long, 6 in. by 4 in., and run out with the 

 circular saw. Bails triangular, about 3^ in. to the side. 

 The uprights are rent from oak or chestnut trees of straight 

 grain, and are usually about -j\ of an in. thick, and 5 ft. 

 high. At 6 ft. apart the posts are erected, the rails being 

 mortised into these, and the rent uprights fastened at about 

 2 in. apart by patent rose rails to the horizontal rails. A 

 fence of this kind, when properly erected, will last for forty 

 years, especially if the butts of the posts were charred 



previous to being inserted in the ground. 



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