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STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



number of hogs on a farm will justify the growing of say six acres of 

 forage crops, this should be enclosed and divided through the center by 

 permanent fences. Division of the two halves can then be made by means 

 of a portable woven wire fence as follows : Set a row of posts two rods 

 apart across each half for the sui)port of the portable fence; owing to the 



Fig. 49. 



distance between the posts they will not interfere seriously with culti- 

 vation. Fig. 49 shows a contrivance devised for the attachment of a 

 portable woven wire fence at the ends. Two posts cleated together at 

 both top and bottom about four inches apart, are set in line with the 

 fence at each end. If the woven wire is stapled to the end posts firmly 

 enough to hold it, the fence will be badly damaged in withdrawing the 

 staples to remove it, so that it would soon be destroyed. In order to 

 overcome this difficulty, we bolt two pieces of one-by-four inch oak on 

 the fence in the form of clamps, placing these clamps one on each side 

 of an upright wire to prevent slipping of the laterals. This is then 



