. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . ted toordinary purposes, the lower board being 7 or 8 inches, the next 6, andthe three upper 5 inches. Where boards are knotty, it is safer to havethem at least 5 or 6 inches wide; but a lighter appearance is given bynarrower strips, and less stuff is. required. Tough kinds of wood, liableto warp, as, for example, elm, should be sawed as narrow as 3 inches,and not over seven-eighths thick; and then, being well nailed before dry,they will be held securely in place, and not draw nails nor become dis-torte
. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . ted toordinary purposes, the lower board being 7 or 8 inches, the next 6, andthe three upper 5 inches. Where boards are knotty, it is safer to havethem at least 5 or 6 inches wide; but a lighter appearance is given bynarrower strips, and less stuff is. required. Tough kinds of wood, liableto warp, as, for example, elm, should be sawed as narrow as 3 inches,and not over seven-eighths thick; and then, being well nailed before dry,they will be held securely in place, and not draw nails nor become dis-torted in seasoning. If cut in summer, when they may season quickly,they will last much longer. Picket fences, as they are termed, cannot be recommended for theirappearance, but only as a method of security in preventing the ingressof intruders. The following figures (figs. 80 and 81,) represent finished but pictu- i resque fences to accompany Cottage-Gothic buildings. They are made jL 7y of smooth lumber, and should be painted light brown. Posts are first Q ^^e^^^ =^=^v^ ©c:^=- -=^::>©. Fig. 81. set, and stout horizontal rails secured nearly as in making a common picketfence. These rails are scantling, 2 by 3 inches, let into the posts, andthe lower one high enough to admit a board about a foot wide at height of the fence shown in fig. 80, above this board, is about 3feet, making more than 4 feet in all; the strips of picket stuff, beinginclined as shown in the figure, must be 3 feet 9 inches long. They arcnailed on opposite sides of the horizontal rails, and form a stiff fence.*In fig. 81, the fence is higher, and intended to exclude fowls from a gar-den. The pickets are 4 feet long, 2 inches wide, and an inch thick, andare nailed on the same side of the rails. In both instances, 2 feet is asufficie?it distance between the upper and lower rail. All fences not of split or rough rails, should be protected from decayby a coating of paint or of lime wash—the former f
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