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Show TWO PRACTICAL FLOOD GATES Illustration Shown and Directions Given for Making Two Useful Devices De-vices for Irrigating Water. To make an excellent flood gate for a water gap, take an Osage post for each side of the stream. Put them into the ground or gravel 5 or 6 feet, with 8 feet above ground, writes J. M. Proctor in the Breeder's Gazette. Run a cable of No. 9 wire across the top. Six r seven wires will make a good strong cable. Then make gates of Ix6-Inch stuff 8 feet long and swing them from the cable. Another useful device is made with two good heavy posts, each having an Iron rod 1 inches In diameter and 9 feet In, length. Bore a hole in the top of the, post and put In an eye bolt with a, nut on the end. Then take Two Types of Water Gates. Osage or locust poles and bore a 1 Inch hole through the large end ol each. Place them on the long IroD rod with blocks of wood between the poles to keep them apart. Each post Is set in the bank about five feet deep. The rod for each post, on which the poles are strung, is set with Its top extending through the eye bolt In the post. The poIeB should lap like a rail fence In the center of th stream about four feet below the line of the posts. They may rest on a rock or concrete block where they lap They will swing down stream when the creek Is up and may be laid in place again after the water goes down |