COST OF FENCING IN NORTH CENTRAL STATES. 5 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE VARIOUS TYPES OF FENCE. 



The percentage of the different kinds of fence used in the area 

 studied is shown in Table 1. 



Table 1. — Percentage of different types of fence used in the various localities 



studied. 



Area. 



Wide 

 woven 

 wire. 



Narrow 

 woven 

 wire 

 with 

 barbed 

 wires. 



Barbed 

 and 



smooth 

 wire. 



Hedge. 



Types of 

 wooden 

 fencing. 



Stone 

 fence. 



Western Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and 

 northern Minnesota 



Eastern Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and 

 southern Minnesota 



Iowa 



Missouri 



Wisconsin 



Illinois 



Michigan 



Indiana 



Ohio 



Per cent. 

 5.5 



8.0 

 13.8 

 13.5 

 11.4 

 55.9 

 53.3 

 59.8 



Per cent. 

 10.2 



20.0 

 45.5 

 49.4 

 33.4 

 41.7 

 11.8 

 18.0 

 3.8 



Per cent. 

 84.0 



63.0 

 43.5 

 27.2 

 49.8 

 29.0 

 11.9 

 12.9 

 7.0 



Per cent. 

 0.03 



6.4 

 2.1 

 5.6 



.04 

 12.4 



.6 

 1.6 

 1.2 



Percent. 

 0.3 



.6 

 .9 

 3.8 

 2.3 

 5.5 

 19.7 

 14.1 

 27.9 



Percent. 

 0.0 



.6 



.0 



.04 



.8 



.0 



.0 



.05 



.05 



WIRE FENCES. 



From Table 1 it may be observed that the greater part of the 

 fencing now in use is constructed of some form of wire. In the 

 western portion of the area studied 84 per cent of the fencing used 

 is made from barbed and smooth wire and 15.7 per cent from the 

 different types of woven wire. In Ohio the opposite is the case, as 

 shown by the fact that only 7 per cent of the farm fences is made 

 from barbed and smooth wire, while 63.6 per cent is constructed from 

 woven wire. It will be noticed that from these two extremes there 

 is a gradual gradation, the amount of woven wire increasing from 

 west to east and the amount of barbed wire decreasing. In this study 

 the woven wire used on farms has been divided into two general 

 classes. Narrow woven wire does not exceed 42 inches in height, 

 with which two or more barbed wires are used to make the fence the 

 desired height. A woven-wire fence over 42 inches high, and which 

 may or may not be supplemented by the use of barbed wire, has been 

 classed as high woven wire. Table 1 shows that the use" of the high 

 and the low types is confined to a marked degree to certain well-defined 

 areas. In Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana the greater part of the 

 woven-wire fence used is "wide" (fig. 2), while in the remainder 

 of the area studied most of the woven-wire fence in use is " narroAV " 

 (fig. '■>). The distrilji.il ion of barbed and woven wire fencing in the 

 various areas may be explained in part by the requirements of the 

 different kinds of farming followed in the areas. 



It is not, bo easy <<> account for the use of high woven wire in one 

 area and of low woven wire in another when both follow a very similar 



