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settlement, must be five feet high, well staked and ridered; or, otherwise, must be five feet high, 

 andlocked and braced at the corners, and from the ground to the height of three feet, the rails 

 or logs must not be more than four inches apart, except in cases of paling, the holes must not 

 be more than two inches asunder. If the fence is made with a ditch, the same must be four feet 

 wide, and the fence five feet high from the bottom of the ditch, and three feet high from the 

 top of the bank. 



LOUISIANA. No legal fence is prescribed but every land owner has the right to compel con- 

 tribution from adjoining owners for making and repairing walls and fences used in common. 

 (Revised Civil Code, 1870, Art. 675-690.) If country estates are inclosed, common boundaries 

 must be made at the expense of adjacent estates, but unenclosed estates are not bound to con- 

 tribute thereto. 



TEXAS. (Rev. Stat. 1879, p. 358.) Article 2431. Every gardener, farmer, or planter, shall 

 make a sufficient fence about his cleared land in cultivation, at least FIVE FEET high, and make 

 such fence sufficiently close to prevent hogs from passing through the same. 



Concerning BARB WIRE FENCE, (Rev. Stat. 1879, Appendix p. 12) the following exists. 

 Section 1. Three strands of Barbed Wire, with posts not further apart than fifteen feet, with a 

 board not less than four inches wide, and one-half an inch thick, hung to the top wire; or two 

 strands of Barbed Wire and a board not less than five inches wide and one inch thick; or two 

 strands of Barbed Wire and a rail; when boards are used, three boards, to be not less than five 

 inches wide and one inch thick, or four rails; if made of boards and rails, the posts to be not 

 more than eight feet apart; when pickets are used, the pickets to be not more than six inches 

 apart. 



All fencing built within the provisions of this act, shall be not less than FOUR-AND-A-HALF 

 FEET high, and shall be deemed a lawful fence and provided further, that the interval between 

 the posts in Barbed Wire fences, as provided in this section, may be increased or diminished by 

 order of the Commissioners' Court of any county. 



ARKANSAS. (Digest 1874, p. 598.) Section 3185. All fields"and grounds kept for enclosures 

 shall be inclosed with a fence sufficiently close, composed of sufficient posts and rails, posts and 

 paling, palisades, or rails alone, laid up in the manner commonly called worm fence. 



Sec. 3186. All fences composed of posts and rails, posts and palings, or palisades, shall be 

 FIVE FEET high, and the posts shall be deeply and firmly set in the ground. 



Sec. 3187. All fences of rails alone, commonly called worm fence, shall be FIVE feet high. 



Sec. 3188. Any landlord who shall fail to make the fence or enclosures around his land which 

 may be in cultivation, in conformity to the last preceding three sections, shall, upon conviction 

 thereof, be fined in any sum not less than twenty, nor more than fifty dollars. (Act Apr. 25, 

 1873.) 



MISSOURI. (Statute 1877, p. 197.) Section 1. Provides that all fields and inclosures shall be 

 inclosed by hedge, or with a fence sufficiently close, composed of posts and rails, posts and 

 palings, posts and planks, posts and wires, palisades, or rails alone, laid up in the manner com- 

 monly called a worm fence, or of turf with ditches on each side, or of stone or brick. 



Sec. 2. All hedges shall be at least four feet high, and all fences composed of posts and rails, 

 posts and palings, posts and wire, posts and planks, or palisades, shall be at least four feet and 

 a half high. * Worm fence shall be at least five feet high to the top of the 



rider, or if not ridered, shall be five feet high to the top of the top rail or pole, and shall be 

 locked with strong rails, poles, or stakes. Those composed of stone or brick, shall be at least 

 four feet and a half high. 



TENNESSEE. (Amended code, 1877.) Section 1682. Every planter shall make and keep a 

 sufficient fence around his land in cutivation, and a sufficient fence shall be as follows : A 

 common worm or crooked rail fence shall be FIVE FEET high; a post and plank, or post and rail 

 fence, shall be FOUR FEET high; and such fences shall be of ordinarily sound and substantial 

 material; a stone fence shall be a substantial wall, three and a half feet high: Provided, that 

 all fences shall be close enough for two and a half feet from the bottom, to prevent hogs large 

 enough to do damage, from passing through the fence. 



KENTUCKY. (General Statutes 1873, p. 543.) Section 1. Every strong and sound fence of 

 rails, or plank, or iron, five feet high, and being so close that cattle or other stock cannot creep 

 through; or made of stone, or brick, four and one-half feet high, or a ditch three feet deep and 

 three feet broad, with a hedge two feet high, or a rail, plank, stone or brick fence, two and a 

 half feet high, on the margin thereof, the hedge or fence being so close that cattle cannot creep 

 through, shall be deemed and held to be a lawful fence. 



The Lumber Supply. 



The amount of logs secured for the season of 1880-81 in the principal logging districts of the 

 Northwest, is as follows: 



If we add to this the amount of summer logging, the total cannot fall much short of 7,450,- 

 000,000 feet. According to the Census report, there are only 81,650,000,000 feet of standing pine 



