MAKE GATES.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2569, 1 July 1882, Page 4

MAKE GATES.

A great deal of time and vsxation can be easily saved by having gates to open instead of having bars, or being obliged to lay down the fence every titco you want to go into a field. Laying down the fence is a vory vexatious way of going l in and out of tbo field. It tifcoa only throe or four layings down of the fence to spoil four or five panels on onoh side of the gap, so that it is all liable to fall down at any time, beeides the time and trouble washed. You +rill loose more time in one season laying down and putting up fences than it would to make two or three gates, besides running the risk of letting in stock when you fail to put up your fence as well as you ought. If you cannot afford to buy plank and make light lumber gat3B, split poles and make them in that way. They may not ba as light to open or last as long as good plank gates, still they will bo far more convenient and better than either bars or no gate. Bars will do where yon have occasion to pas? yery few time*, but it is hard to make them perfeotly pig tight, and they are considerable trouble to lay down and put up, while they take nearly, if not quite, as muoh lime and material to make as a gate, and are far more inconvenient. Make them wide enough to drive a loaded waggon through easily, tight enough to keep out pigs, and high enough so that oxttle cunnot jump over, and as light as you reasonably oan, so that they will be easier to open and shut. N. J. Shhppbkd. Miller Co., Mo.