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of the sheep industry in many localities, and a good perma- 

 nent fence is the cheapest in the end. Sheep are the easiest 

 to fence of all farm animals. Almost any board or woven 

 wire fence will turn sheep. Barbed wire cattle fences are 

 about the only kind that will not turn sheep, and these 



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FiG. 20. — A Good Portable Fence. 



not only do not turn them I)ut tear out a quantity of 

 valuable wool. Farm fences, however, must turn cattle 

 and horses and often hogs as well as sheep. When this is 

 the case, it is easy to go a step farther and make a fence 

 that will turn dogs and coyotes as well. A good woven 

 wire close enough at the bottom to turn hogs and about 

 five feet high with a barlietl wire on top will turn almost 

 any dog or coyote ; in fact, very few dogs will jump a 

 four-foot fence. The bottom of the woven wire may be 

 placed in a furrow and the soil turned back against it, or 



