September, 1910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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boys and girls who take a course in manual training will curacy of hand and eye and the general handiness learned 

 never make any professional use of the skill thus attained, in the school without mentioning the pleasure that may be 

 but throughout their lifetime will Hnd invaluable the ac- obtained by continuing such work in an amateur way. 



A number of interesting examples of work done by boys in an up-to-date manual training scliool 



Post-and-Board Fence of Concrete 



By John R. Spears 



on centers. 



j^HE well-known post and board style of the posts are set 7 feet apart 



fence if built of concrete makes a unique 



ornament. The following instructions 



V. ill be found very simple! To make the 



posts, construct a box seven feet long by 



seven inches wide and deep at one end, 



and five inches wide and deep at the other. 

 At the center place a board on edge i ^/g inches thick and 

 3 feet -jYz inches long, with a width tapering to correspond 

 to the depth of the box. The board should stand 2 1/2 

 inches from the end of the box at the narrow end. The 

 parts of the mold should be tacked or screwed together so 

 that they may easily be removed. The central board should 

 be withdrawn as soon as the concrete has hardened suffi- 

 ciently to hold its shape. Before filling the mold, it should 

 be lined with building paper, or else thoroughly greased. 

 The slabs or panels may be cast in molds such as illustrated, 

 and should be reinforced with a quarter-inch rod near the 

 lower edge. The upper panel should have a reinforcing 

 rod at the upper edge as well. To space the panels, short 

 posts or tiles will be required which may be cast in the same 

 mold with the panels, as shown. The panels should be 

 I Inch thick, 6 inches wide, and 6 feet 11^ inches long, if A post and board fence of concrete 



With the panels 

 and tiles as- 

 sembled, as in- 

 dicated in the 

 drawing, a space 

 will be left at 

 the top a!id 

 down the center 

 of the post, 

 which mav be 

 filled with ce- 

 ment, so that 

 the slabs and 

 posts will form 

 a monolithic 

 structure. The 

 best mixture of 

 concrete for the 

 fence will be 1 

 part cement, 

 2^ of sand , 

 and 5 of broken 

 stone. 



