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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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not only do not turn them but 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 barbed 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 
