Show MANNER OF constructing PRACTICAL SHEEP HURDLES jr aj great objection to more mor general use of devices seems to B their liability of blowing over s materials to be used A the great objection to the more general use of sheep hurdles seems to be their liability to blowing over I 1 submit illustrations of some that offer less resistance or are better fortified against the effects of the wind writes ri richard hard I 1 mitchell Ml in the country gentleman fig 1 while not strictly a movable hurdle Is nevertheless considered as such and Is the one in most common use I 1 can only give measurements from memory but should say that they were 10 feet long and 5 fet feet high when set up the figure shown la Is made ot of sawed stuff but they are more often made of split saplings the construction however Is precisely the same holes are made with a bar and they are get set end to end and pinned together at the top these like those supported on tho the A crutch form a perfectly straight fence which la is not so proof against the force of the wind as one built zigzag zig zag or worm fashion in fig 2 1 I have shown two panels that are intended to be set up in this manner the lefthand left hand end of panel b slips in the right hand hind end of panel a and a section of the fence Is shown in fig 3 these panels are supposed to be 10 feet long and 4 feet high and the lumber 1 by 5 inch stuff but these dimensions can be varied to suit the idea of the user with these dimensions men mens lons however the distance between the end uprights on panel ought to be 11 inches on panel a the end uprights ought to be 15 inches from either end this ought to make the fence worm about 4 feet As can be readily understood more or less worm will be given to the fence by moving the second upright from either end in panel a A panel using wire instead of lumber seems desirable and in fig 4 1 I have shown one that seems to me the most desirable as combining the great rui WIS est eat strength with the least surface and with the surface low the panel as there shown can be used on the A crutch fig 6 5 shows it modified to meet the requirements of a worm fence hy by substituting a post in the place of the alie end uprights you have the fig 1 forms in fig 5 you will notice that I 1 am not satisfied with cleats but have introduced a bar sliding in a slot on the front side of the end upright and on the back side hide of the second upright tills this makes a complete lock and seems to me quite essential on that style of fence I 1 should also rec amend the same device on the board C A N panels as on uneven ground one end might spring up and allow the panels to separate of course on this skeleton any kind of wire can be used personally I 1 would not use iise barbed wire of any sort as a gift the illustration Is intended to show a two strand twisted wire placed six inches apart which Is much closer than it Is used on longer el stretches but that number ot of wires seems to me about right for a good job they might be placed closer at the bottom and wider at the top perhaps that hurdle fig 4 made with 4 foot uprights and 14 feet from end to end of upright would weigh about 65 pounds and cost about as many cents for material the cost of the all board one would not bo be much different and it would weigh 40 pounds more As to manufacture I 1 should say bay as has already been suggested that tha t fret pretty close to where they are to be used would bo be the best place to make them as one freight on tho the material would be saved machinery does not enter very largely into their construction so nothing could bo be saved in that way it ought not to require any great skill to saw up boards and nall nail them together and also stretch wire on them it that form was desired in drawing these hurdles I 1 haye baye allowed the center uprights to come down as far as the others in tice it might be found better to make them shorter especially it if they were to be set up tip on uneven ground the diagonals in fig 4 being on opposite sides aides of inch uprights will of course bo be an inch apart where they cross I 1 should not fill this in hut but draw them together in nailing as it will make if q frame all the stronger hemlow Hem loc Is probably the best material for making these and it would undoubtedly last enough longer to pay to have it dressed if ordered in carload lots enough would he be saved in freight to pay fol foi HF the dressing if the ends enda of tile the uprights that stand on the ground were dipped in hot coal tar they would probably last as long las as the rest art the panel fig 6 shows an iron that hat t think would be a great help in clinching the nails A slot Is cut jn in the end of a flat piece of iron so that it will slip easily on the nail and it Is beveled from the slot to either edge uy by slipping this on the nail the end can be bent over at more than a right angle tile the iron Is then slipped back as shown in the illustration and th the nail bent over and driven into the wood as shown to the right for fencing stacks and turning corners both ends of the panels would have to bib be alike instead of reversing as shown in the cut it this fence should prove reasonably windproof wind proof it ought to solve a large problem in fence economy as very much less fence would omy b be n needed it if the fence could be easily moved from place to place as an occasion demanded it would be absolutely windproof wind proof around a stack it if locked with the slid ingbar ing lug bar and would have the advantage of being movable when the ground was frozen |