FENCES AND GATES. 



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A Good Farm Gate — We present herewith an engraving of a good 

 and serviceable farm gate, which may be eaaily and cheaply constructed as 

 follows: » 



Four posts are set firmly in line, so that the boui will be true. Measure 

 fourteen feet, on line with those already set, and set the post the gat« shuts 

 against. Then place the sUl for the gat« to run on, fourteen or sixteen feet 

 long, put down sohd. The sill for the gate to run back on can be made of any 

 Mght material that vrQ\. sustain the weight of the gate. The sill should have 

 about one inch dovm grade toward the shutting post, and be spiked last to 



A GOOD FABM GATE. 



the posts. The gat© is made of any width lumber, and long enough in lap 

 four inches on the shutting poets, and about two feet on the groove post, to 

 keep it shady. At the bottom, the gate must have two boards to support the 

 bolts that the rollers turn on. These rollers should be six inches in diameter, 

 an inch thick, to run on half-round iron, placed at a proper distance from tlie 

 bottom board of the fence, so as to let the gate pass wthont nibbing. Tlio 

 iron rod should have holes punched so as to let twelve-penny nails throii;;h 

 to nail to the sUl, alxjut two feet apart. Xail down the rud and it is ready 

 for the gate. The gate is put together with 

 sixteen two and one-half inch bolts and 

 eight three and one-half inch l)olts; the 

 three and one-half inch bolts go through 

 three boards at the bottom. The rollers 

 (as per drawing) go between the bottom 

 boards close under the brace, so as to get 

 the bearing; the 1x)lts should fit the rollers 

 as tight as possible. These rollers in their 

 place, put up the gate on the rod, and run 

 it back on the fence; mark the four posts 

 on© inch above the top of the gate; saw 

 them off square, in line; place on top of the posts a joist twelve inches wide, 

 two inches thick; let it ])roject over in front of tlie gate far enough to clear it; 

 now naU a six-inch strip on the edge of the joist, so that the top edge will l>e 

 even Avith the top side of the joist; the four iuobes proje<'tiniC do^vn will serve 

 as a groove for the g.ite to run in and keep it in its place; now spiko the joist 

 to the top of the }x)8t firmly; let the gate lap on the shutting iH>6t alx>ut four 

 inches on half the iK>8ts: then nail the cuds of the boards to the post cjoupy- 

 ing the other half, so that tho g:ite will shut against the butts, which will 

 help sustain the post; now nail a board sohd in line with the butts, and thick 



A CHEAP GATE. 



