THE LOWELL WIRE FEXCING 



to the current ; it excludes none of the solar raj's, so conducive to vegetation ; it 

 does not confine the heat, like board fences and walls, which is prejudicial to crops ; 

 it does not occupy and exhaust the soil, like hedges ; it requires no repair, save 

 an occasional replenishing of the varnish, and wherever it has been tried, it has 

 given the most unqualified satisfaction. This last fact is attested by many hundred 



letters now in the hands of the manufac- 

 turers, written by scientific and practical 

 farmers in all parts of the Union. 



Our Window Xetting is of various 

 widths from 13 to 28 inches ; its meshes 

 are one inch square ; it is of No. IT or 18 

 wire, and varnished like the fence, and sold 

 (at retail) at seven cents per square foot, 

 being less than one-half the usual price. 

 Fig. 3 represents another kind of this fencing, from sixteen inches to four feet 

 high, with meshes of three inches. The body of this fencing is of Xo. 25 wire ; 

 the price from 75 cents to $1 50 per rod. This fence, in its several varieties, 

 makes an admirable sheep, poultry, and garden fence ; that four feet high serves 

 for heneries. 



[We should advise that this wire be galvanized, to prevent the necessity of 

 painting or varnishing it every year or two, which would not only be expensive, 

 but difficult when covered with vines. — Ed.] 



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Vol. YI.— March, 1856. 



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