An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 F* i i P- a u p- * larch poles, or rods, inserted in the grou
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 F* i i P- a u p- * larch poles, or rods, inserted in the ground at regular distances (according to the kind of animals to be excluded or separated), and joined together at top either by wires, short iron rods, or short slips of wood. At every twelve or fifteen feet, there may be a brace on one or both sides, or alternately, as shown at a. 8192. 3075. Gates. In the Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture will be found figured and described at length, some gates of a very superior description. That called Buchanan's Gate, which is formed entirely ofiron, is remarkably strong and cheap; and Cottam's Gate is equally cheap, and nearly as strong. There are several gates for park entrances, with machinery attached for the gate- keeper to open them in the night-time without getting out of bed. 8193 3088, b (3088, a, is a gate-stopper given in the first Supplement). Russell's gate-stopper is thus described in the Highland Society's Transactions, vol. xi. p. 236. Fig. 1217. is a view of two leaves of a gate fixed in the pivots a a. The centre, A, is formed of two uprights, checked into each other, and fixed together by a latch, and perpendicular bolt, which is drawn up by the hand. On the gate being opened, oneof theuprights, a, having communication with a cast- iron box (fig. 1218.), gives motion to the connecting rod between a and b. When the leaves of the gate are opened, the connecting rod is shortened by means of the crank at
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