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the subject pretty thoroughly, and it is decidedly the best 

 for all purposes I have ever seen. It ^yill turn any kind 

 of stock, from a pig to a bull — is easily stretched, saves 

 and improves the land in appearance and value." 



And another says : "It stands as firm as the Rock of 

 Gibraltar." 



And now, let us see exactly what this valuable fence is 

 made of: five double strands of galvanized wire, that is, 

 ten wires woven in and out around pickets or slats. 



The "Standard Farm Fence," four feet high, painted, 

 with the pickets two to two and a half inches apart, is sold 

 at five cents a running foot, and at this price costs less 

 than the ordinary picket fence. It comes in rolls of fifty 

 to one hundred feet long. The posts are set sixteen to 

 twenty feet apart. Here is another of its cheap points, for 

 many more posts are needed for board or picket fences. 



The fence is secured to the posts with staples, and when 

 you want to move it, all you have to do is to draw the 

 staples, roll up the pickets and carry them where the new 

 line is to be run. Two men can put up a mile of this 

 fencing in a day, and the process is so simple that any one 

 can do it. This is one of the rarest and most valuable 

 features a fence can have ; a movable fence is worth ten 

 times as much as any other. 



By cutting the rolls apart, nailing on strips top and bot- 

 tom, with a brace running from one to the other, gates, 

 large and strong, may be made of this accommodating 

 fence. 



While the usual "Farm Fence" is four feet high, it can 

 be made higher to order, or the same result may be ob- 

 tained by placing a board at the bottom, an excellent plan, 

 especially for vegetable gardens and poultry-yards ; and 

 then, if the posts are run up six inches or so above the 

 top line, and a barbed wire stretched along from one to an- 



