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and damaged in our property ; we should have laughed at 

 the vain efforts of our four-footed foes to invade our prem- 

 ises and steal our produce, and have defied the forest-fires 

 to burn our fences. 



There is a fence which has been only recently introduced 

 to public notice, yet has already won from all the highest 

 praise, even enthusiasm ; in four States alone, last year, 

 over twenty-five thousand miles of this fence were sold, 

 and from every purchaser came back the most satisfactory 

 reports. It is being extensively used in nearly every State 

 in the Union, and also in Canada, with the same gratify- 

 ing results to its manufacturers, the Georgia Fence Com- 

 pany, 28 Peach-tree Street, Atlanta, Georgia. 



The Committee of Agriculture of the General Assembly 

 of Georgia were invited to examine this fence officially, 

 and they unanimously pronounced it ' ' the greatest fence 

 ever made." 



The experienced Commissioner of Agriculture of the 

 same State gives it this strong official indorsement : 



" After a careful examination of the ' Combination Wire 

 and Picket Fence,' made by the Georgia Fence Company, 

 I am of opinion that it offers to the farmers of the State 

 several very decided advantages. It is very strong, dura- 

 ble, cheap, to some extent ornamental, and free from the 

 objection so generally urged against the barbed wire fence ; 

 it can not injure stock." 



And the Assistant Commissioner follows suit : * ' The 

 fence question is becoming a serious one for the farmer. 

 Being a farmer myself, and needing fences, I have been 

 investigating, and have decided that the Wire and Picket 

 Fence made by the Georgia Fence Company is the most 

 practical and economical ever introduced." 



Says a well-known banker on the same subject: "I am 

 more than pleased with the fencing. Have investigated 



