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from standard to standard, which if of wood should 

 be provided with an iron eyelet stanchion upon the top. 

 Upon this wire are suspended, as shown in Fig. 61, by 

 means of bent wire pieces, lengths of ridging. This is 

 a very cheap material made of galvanised sheet iron. As 

 will be seen, the ridging works freely, and when either 

 dog, fox, or cat seeks to surmount the netting it can gain 

 no foothold, and falls backwards. Cats can climb, but 

 foxes and dogs almost always jump up vertically, seeking 

 to reach the top edge of the fence and then to clamber over. 

 The device in question is an effective preventive of any- 

 thing of the kind. In view 

 of the fact that the addition 

 of this ridging to wire-netting 

 entails but comparatively 

 speaking small increased ex- 

 penditure, there is little 

 reason why it should not 

 be always employed and so 

 make the protection effective. 

 Another form of cheap fenc- 

 Fig. 61. Section of Ridging for ing for similar purpose which 



is also effective is that made of 



split chestnut wood strung on steel wire. It is portable, 

 cheap, and easily erected. 



The greatest security obtainable for preventing the de- 

 predations of foxes is constant personal watching of the 

 young stock being reared, but this can only be effective 

 when the keepers or watchers are constantly on the move 

 from dusk to sunrise. The mere placing of a keeper's 

 hut upon the ground and the tenanting of it by night is of 

 little value. It may even prove an attraction. It is the 

 movement and presence at irregular intervals of human 

 beings that frighten the varmint away. 



