PORTABLE- FENCES. 



England in lengths of 100 yards, and widths of 4 feet, at about $9 

 the 100 yards. At this price it could be imported with profit, and 

 probably cheaper than it could be manufactured here. Another 

 form of hurdles not quite so portable, but more easily moved and 

 set is illustrated at fig. 7. They are 12 feet long, and are made of 

 a stout pole bored with two series of holes 12 inches apart. Stakes 

 six feet long are put into these, holes, so that they project from 

 them three feet on each side of the pole. One series of holes is 

 bored in a direction 

 at right angles to 

 that of the other, 

 and when the 

 stakes are all pro- 

 perly placed, they 

 form a hurdle the 

 end of which looks 

 like the letter X. 

 The engraving 

 shows how these 

 hurdles are made 

 and the method of 

 using them. A row 

 is placed across 

 the field. A strip 

 of ten feet wide is 

 set off upon which 

 the sheep feed. 

 They eat up all the 

 herbage upon this 

 strip and that which they can reach by putting their heads through 

 the hurdles. The hurdles are then turned over, exposing another 

 strip of forage. When this is fed off the hurdles are again turned 

 over, and so on. The chevaux-de-frise presented by the hurdles 

 prevents any trespassing upon the other side of them, and by using 

 two rows the sheep are kept in the narrow strip between them. 

 Their droppings are therefore very evenly spread over the field, 

 and it is very richly fertilized by them. At night the sheep 

 are taken off, and when the field has been fed over, they are 

 brought back again to the starting point and commence once more 

 to eat their way along. When the crop is cut and fed to the sheep, 

 a somewhat different arrangement is made. This may be made a 

 valuable means of improving land. A badly run-down field in- 

 fested with weeds, may be cleared of rubbish, fertilized, and 



Fig. 6. SHEEP NETTING. 



