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attached to posts, is cheap and easily adapted to the 

 purpose. Pastures of annual crops, or shift pastures, as 

 pasturing the stubble after a crop of grain, may be sur- 

 rounded by temporary fences. The cost of moving 

 fences is often less than the loss sustained by allowing 

 stock to remain in pastures which are short of feed 



Figure 252. Buckthorn hedge beside roadway. 



while in the adjoining field some green crop is going 

 to waste. 



Ornamental fences. On the farm, fences designed to 

 be ornamental should be rather plain and substantial, 

 not necessarily expensive, and should be of a kind easily 

 kept in repair. Iron fencing of a plain, strong design 

 makes a fence pleasing to the eye and quite durable. 



