Show PORTABLE FENCE IS USEFUL may be placed around rich piece of fodder and pastured off in most I 1 economical manner rather than cut a rich piece of fodder to be gathered and moved away to the sheep hogs or other stock it is often more economical to pasture it off a small email piece at a time the lack of suitable fence often prevents this writes sylvanus sylvanua in the portable fence panel orange judd farmer A portable fence may bo be built according to the plan shown in the drawing herewith it requires but a few panels of this to I 1 field for a days cropping when it can be shifted to new ground for the next day it if sheep with lambs are to be folded in this way an extra board will be needed at the bottom of each panel these panels mal be built 12 or 14 feet in length and must be thoroughly braced to keep the fence firm from endwise motion cross pieces at the bot bottom torn of the upright should be long enough to keep tho the fence firm sidewise the J 0 fence post upright used for the portable base should be two by four inches with iron hooks driven or screwed in at proper intervals to receive the end boards of the panels |