382 Western Live-stock Management 
FENCES 
For inside fences or partitions, heavy woven wire with 
a close mesh has been tried out and found fairly satis- 
factory. It admits the light freely, permits the hogs to 
see each other and the attendant, and it is easily cleaned 
and kept sanitary. Wooden partitions must be tight, 
otherwise the pigs will gnaw through them or try to climb 
over them. They would better be made movable, so that, 
if desired, two or more pens may be combined. This may 
be done by means of two cleats nailed to the underside 
of a two by four placed at the height which the partition 
should be. One of these cleats is nailed in temporarily 
after the ends of the boards have been set up against 
the opposite cleat, and when the partition isto be removed, 
the nails are drawn from the temporary cleat and as many 
boards as desired taken out. Worn-out boards may be 
replaced in the same manner. Concrete fences have been 
suggested and used to a slight extent, but more as a base 
for iron fences : that is, a wall of concrete a foot or eighteen 
inches in height is used on which to set the iron fence. 
This prevents the manure passing from one pen to another 
and makes quarantine more easily possible. As an entire 
fence, concrete takes up too much space and is too ex- 
pensive. For outside fences, no material is more service- 
able or convenient than woven wire. The material of 
which the fence is made should be as heavy as can be 
secured, since the very heaviest and closest mesh fence 
obtainable will be none too good. The regulation hog 
fence is made of No. 9 wire throughout. Very little of this 
fence is sold in the West, but its extra durability will jus- 
tify securing it even with the additional expense involved. 
The stays should be six inches apart instead of twelve as 
