QUALITY IN WIRE FENCING 



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only the best have gone to pieces in two years. And 

 the heaviest wire fencing known to me a fence ad- 

 vertised all over the United States for half a generation 

 at least as the standard of quality in manufacturing 

 has rusted completely away in its lighter wires in seven 

 years, in a location perhaps 20 miles from salt water. 



Wire Netting. Darker Wires Show Rust. Rusted While in the Roll 



It is a common belief, and we hear frequent testimony, 

 that the wire manufactured twenty years ago or more 

 resisted corrosion far better than the wires now pro- 

 duced. This scarcely touches the matter as it now 

 stands, since the iron wire then used has passed entirely 

 out of use, in favor of the steel wire. 



Five points are noted as affecting the rapidity with 



