Patent Steel Barb Wire Fencing. 



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venturesome beast soon comes to respect and keep away from the fence. 

 He is not tempted to leaping to his own harm, as by the insecure wooden 

 fence. All classes of animals learn to be orderly and quiet in the enclosures, 

 and let the fence alone. 



WHY HAS STEEL BARB PENCE BEEN A SUCCESS ? 



FIRST. IT is STRONG. A strand of 

 Glidden Barb Wire has 2,300 Ibs. tensile 

 strength. 



SECOND. By the use of a double 

 twisted wire the fence material is strength- 

 ened, and at the same time given the 

 property of adapting itself perfectly to all 

 chart ges of temperature. The fence is 

 strong and tight in all seasons. 



THIRD. It is the easiest handled and 

 transported of fence materials. The 

 usual market package, a compactly wound 

 spool of wire (two of which occupy as 

 freight about the same space as a barrel 

 of flour), weighs 200 pounds and car- 

 ries 1,400 feet, or over eighty rods of wire. Thus the farmer's team can 

 carry in one load, to any part of his farm, enough fence material to enclose 

 a very large field. The railroad company can transport in a single car-load, 

 Barb Fencing for twenty miles of fence. 



The following table will furnish a valuable and perfect means of comparison 

 of Barb Fencing with all other Fence material, as regards weight, and ease of 

 handling. 



BAKE FENCE SPOOL. 



Table OF WEIGHTS, Showing- number of pounds of Barb Fencing required to fence space or distances 

 mentioned, -with one, two or three strands. 



FOURTH. It is EASILY ERECTED. And this furnishes the reason for the 

 rapid introduction of Barb Fence Material, among all classes of land owners, 

 small farmers and large, and especially among railroad companies with whom 

 the transportation of timber for fencing, to points of use along their railroad 

 lines, is a serious question involving much expense and labor. We have 

 already referred to the ease of handling Barb Fence Wire. A few words as 

 to its ease of erection into a substantial and suitable fence. And this varies 

 .with the views and uses of the farmer, for there is no end to the combinations 

 that can be formed with Barb Fencing and other styles of fence. Thus one 



