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touching the two-by-sixes. The woven wire was not stapled to the end posts but 

 each strand brought around the post and wrapped on itself. The wire fencing 

 was also stapled to the intermediate cedar posts and the top and bottom wires 

 to the two-by-sixes against which they rested. 



The woven wire used was special hog fence with seven lateral wires, top and 

 bottom wires No. 9 and intermediate No. 12. There are twenty-eight No. 11 cross 



FIG. 9. 



wires to the rod. The woven wire and two-by-sixes make the fence thirty-eight 

 inches high. This has furnished a cheap fence and after three seasons' use we 

 are perfectly satisfied with it. But one repair has been made and that at a point 

 where a flaw occurred in the wire. The openings of these pens consist of doors 

 which slide up and down in grooves at the sides, dropping into slots at the bottom 

 to prevent pigs from opening them. 



Lot Fencing — The term lot is here used to designate larger enclosures, such 

 as those furnishing pasture and forage crops. In pursuing economic methods of 

 swine husbandry, pasture and forage crops are essential throughout the greatest 

 possible portion of the year. Few crops provide continuous pasturage throughout 



