Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1913 — Agricultural [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Agricultural

A Spacing Board. X spaciag board such as is shown in the accompanying illustration it a very convenient device to use when putting up a board fence. With its use one man alone can get all the boards spaced evenly, thus dispensing with the aid of an extra man. The spacer should be several inches long and as wide from the bottom of the notch as the desired space be-

tween the boards. The notch of the spacer is two inches deop and is put over the top of the board near one end. The notch holds it in position. Then put one end of the board which is to bo nailed to the posts on top of the spacer, leaving one free to space and nail the other ond of the board. The illustration shows the spacer In position and separate.—O. F. Bundstodt in the Prairie Farmer.