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stroyed. In order to overcome this difficulty, we bolt iwo pieces of one-by-four 

 inch oak in 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 drawn 

 through between the two posts at one end and blocked by twoby-fours. A wire 

 stretcher is then attached to the other end; the fence is pulled up tight; the 

 end drawn through between the end posts and clamps and blocks used as hereto- 

 fore described. The stretcher can then be slacked back and removed. The wire 

 fence is held in an upright position against the intermediate posts by staples 



FIG. 11. 



only partly driven. It required but two hours to release, move and again set up 

 358 feet of fence this way. In some cases it may be necessary to pin the fence 

 down between the posts, but the occasion for this seldom occurs till the feed be- 

 comes too short. Occasionally sags will occur in the ground where pins would 

 be lifted by the tension of the wire. In such cases the fence can be held down 

 in the following manner, viz.; Wrap a short piece of wire around a rock, bury 

 this underneath the fence and fastens the bottom strand of the fence down to the 

 wires which project above ground from the rock. For portable fencing we have 

 used thirty-inch woven wire which seems to be plenty high enough. A strand of 

 barbed wire affords effective restraint when placed underneath a woven wire fence 

 and is particularly desirable beneath permanent ones. 



The Dipping Vat. — Fig It represents the form of dipping vat in use in the 

 piggery, the .location of which is shown in Fig. 1. This vat is constructed entirely 

 of concrete. It is three feet deep, seven feet six inches long on top and three feet 

 six inches long on bottom. It is eighteen inches wide on the bottom and thirty 

 at the top. The end next the passageway is perpendicular, requiring the animals 



