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Method of Construction. — -Construct a table four feet 

 wide and seventeen feet long. (With a little more care 

 and inconvenience the barn floor may be substituted for 

 the table.) At one end of the table and at right angles 

 with the same nail a piece of straight board, C, Figure A 

 in the illustration. At the front side of the table, or the 

 side of the workman, nail two blocks, d, made of two-inch 

 lumber, so that they are at right angles to c, to form sup- 

 ports for the lower board cf the panel and the lower ends 



CUT 33.— PORTABLE PANEL FENCE FOR SWINE. 



of the two end cross bars. Then take two-incli blocks, f, 

 e, g, that are about two inches wide, and nail them to the 

 table so that their outside ends are 11 inches from the 

 proposed ends of the panel, and arrange them so that it 

 is nine inches from the upper side of d to the upper side 

 of f, eleven inches from the upper side of f to the upper 

 side of e, and fourteen inches from the upper side of e to_ 

 the upper side of g. Next place six-inch boards sixteen 

 feet long (the length of the panel) so that they lie firmly 



