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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 103, 9 February 1886, Page 3

An lowa maa says : — " The farmer sometime 8 has need of a gate in a barbed wire fence, used but seldom ; he must nevertheless, put up a substantial hiuge or slide gate. I have seen a good gate put id a barbed wire fence with very little trouble in this manner: Build the fence without reference te the gate ; then select the location for the gate and staple the wire securely to the two gate posts so it cannot slip. Cut tbe wires at one of the posts and fasten the ends to a light piece of wood as high as the post. Set one end of this piece of wood in a shallow hole beside the post, and in a wire loop round the post for greater security, if you like, r and place a wire loop over it and the post at the top, and your gate is finished. It can be opened in a moment, and for O -casion.il use is as good us a hinge gate."