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FENCES, GATES
AND
BRIDGES.
A PRACTICAL MANUAL.
EDITED BY
THREE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS.
NEW YORK:
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY,
1892.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by the
O. JUDD CO.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
PREFATORY
It is authoritatively stated that the building and maintenanceof the farm fences in the United States have cost more than theconstruction of the farm buildings. Be this as it may, while largenumbers of works have been written upon rural architecture webelieve this is the first publication specially devoted to Fences,Gates and Bridges. It aims to be a practical work, showing the“evolution” of the fence from the road barrier of logs,brush or sods to the latest improved forms of barbed wire. The numerousillustrations are mainly representations of fences, gates, etc., inactual use. The chapter on fence law is necessarily condensed. Thevarious judicial decisions upon the subject alone would fill a largevolume.
This little work, the first and only one of its character, is givento the public in the confident hope that it will prove specially usefulto farmers and village residents.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- Rail and other Primitive Fences 7–17
Virginia Rail Fence; Laying a Rail Fence; Staking and Wiring; A Fence of Stakes and Riders; A Pole Fence; Fences for Soil Liable to Heave; Other Primitive Fences.
- Stone and Sod Fences 18–23
How a Stone Wall Should be Built; Building a Stone Fence; Truck for Moving Stones; Re-inforcing a Stone Wall; A Composite Fence; A Prairie Sod Fence.
- Board Fences 24–30
Building Board Fences; Fences for Land Subject to Overflow; A Fence-Board Holder; Re-inforcing a Board Fence.
- Picket Fences 31–42
A Good Garden Fence; A Southern Picket Fence; Fences of Split Pickets; Ornamental Picket Fences; Rustic Picket Fences; Light Picket Fences; Hand-made Wire and Picket Fences; Fence of Wire and Pickets.
- Barb-Wire Fence 43–61
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