

of course can be used again in the permanent fence. The droppers 



33 FT. 



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DROPPER FENCE. 



for six wires can be obtained in the colony from W. D. Moore & 

 Co., Fremantle, for 6s. per doz. and the wedges to fasten them to 

 the wires for 30!. per Ib. 



Having considered purely temporary fences, it may now be as 

 well to enumerate the different kinds of permanent fences that are 

 to be recommended and the methods of their erection. 



They may be named as follows : Post and rails, post and top 

 rail and wire, posts and wire, posts and wire and wire netting. 

 Picket and other fancy fences do not call for any description here. 

 Slab and stake, chock and log, zig-zag, and other purely timber 

 fences, used to be common in the colony in the old days, prior 

 to the introduction of wire netting, and when labor was cheap 

 and timber plentiful, and though there are many surviving, 

 they are never put up now, unless under exceptional circumstances. 

 This may be generally said to be the age of metal, and post and all 

 rail fences are seldom used now except for stock yards and small 

 enclosures where a large number of horned stock are congregated. 

 These fences are costly in both labor and material, though most 

 satisfactory and enduring if properly put up with the right kind of 

 timber. The post and rail and wire fence is a fence, as the name 

 implies, with one top rail and all below that of wiie. This is an 

 excellent fence, but more expensive than the fence now in most 

 general use, the post and all wire. The wires may be five, six, 

 seven, or eight in number, but six wires are enough to keep in any 

 kind of stock that is at all domesticated, and if the cattle are wild 1 

 do not see that one or two extra wires would keep them from 

 breaking through. The accompanying illustration shows the end 

 panel of a six wire fence, with a barbed wire run on top of the 

 post. This I consider to be ;i maximum fence, in that it has all that 

 is required to keep in stock. The stock this fence would not keep 

 in, a brick wall would not. This fence would be almost equally 

 serviceable and less expensive if the second and third wires were 

 raised about three inches and the top plain wire dispensed with, 

 Barbed wire must in all cases be put either on the top of the posts 

 or inside one's own paddock. 



