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The farm-right gives to the purchaser license to use the 

 machine on his own lands for seventeen years ; it costs for 

 forty acres or less, $2, eighty acres, $4, one hundred acres, 

 $5, and so increases up to one thousand acres at a cost of 

 $17.50. These terms are certainly liberal enough to suit 

 any one, especially as any number of machines may be 

 made and operated on the same land at the same time. 



This little machine, to which was awarded the highest 

 premium at the North Central and South American Expo- 

 sition in 1886, is a godsend to those who want a good, dur- 

 able, fire-proof fence made at home. Once possessing the 

 machine, the wire is the only outside expense, a very light 

 one, as the pickets and posts can be made from one's own 

 timber, and in many cases by one's own ''strong right 

 arm," and fencing made ad libitum. 



The same manufacturer (A. G. Hulbert, 904 Olive Street, 

 St. Louis, Missouri) owns also another patent for "Home- 

 made Wire-netting," in other words, an all-wire fence. 



This netting fence, with galvanized wire, which is the 

 cheapest in the end, costs from twenty-five to fifty cents a 

 rod (sixteen and one half feet) according to the size of the 

 mesh, and the right to make it is sold on the same terms 

 as that of the wire and picket fence. 



The posts are set sixteen or more feet apart ; the wires 

 strung up on the posts at the desired distances apart, par- 

 allel, of course ; the outer or selvedge edges drawn tight, 

 the others left slack ; two strips, with spikes set in them as 

 far apart as the meshes are to be, are fastened to the selv- 

 edge edges, tlie slack wires resting on the spikes ; with this 

 basis to rest on, the meshes are formed by passing a per- 

 pendicular wire back and forth. 



The manner of working is very simple, and any farm- 

 hand of ordinary intelligence could make the meshes, and 

 make them rapidly too. 



