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the stake fence, namely redwood posts and split redwood stakes, are 

 close at hand and this type of fence seems to have solved the coyote 

 problem at this particular point. 



It consists of split redwood stakes approximately four inches wide, 

 one and one-fourth inches thick and six feet long, driven one foot into 

 the ground at a season when it is wet, and are placed three inches 



Fig. 5. — Diagram of coyote-proof redwood stake fence. This type of fence is 

 particularly adapted to rough ground. 



apart. A heavy No. 9 galvanized wire is fastened to the eight-foot 

 redwood posts which are set an average distance of thirteen feet 

 apart. Each picket or stake is then lashed, near the top, to the heavy 

 wire by a light No. 13 wire, and two heavily barbed wires fastened 

 to the posts at points three and nine inches, respectively, above the 

 top of the pickets. (See fig. 5.) 



The woven wire fence is fifty-two inches high. The top and bot- 

 tom wires are No. 10, the middle wires No. 12, and the cross-wires 

 No. 13 ; all are galvanized. The mesh in this fence is triangular, and 

 this feature is important. Square mesh fence, especially the welded- 

 joint type, proved unsatisfactory because it wo^^ld not "give" suf- 

 ficiently in crossing gullies and sharp ridges to follow the contour 

 of the ground. A barbed wire is fastened all along at the bottom 



