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a yard, upon the following plan: — Wooden 

 or iron standards placed at forty yards apart, 

 with iron uprights a rood distance from each 

 other. The uprights are not fastened into 

 stone or wooden blocks, but merely driven 

 eighteen inches into the ground. A notch, 

 such as is shown in the example, is made at 

 the top and bottom of the upright, the 

 former about two inches from the upper end ; 

 the latter six inches from the ground, so 

 as to prevent lambs from getting under the 

 wire. The wires are confined in these notches 

 by thinner wires twisted round them, which 

 are also passed round the intervening lines 

 of wire, as represented in the example. I 

 am not aware of any advantage in this mode 

 above the usual method of drilling holes in 

 the uprights, except that it greatly facilitates 

 the changing of the direction of the fence, 

 which, in the situation to which we are apply- 

 ing it, will not be required. If, after all, the 

 wire fence should be deemed too expensive 

 for large plantations, it may be used for those 

 parts which are near to the house, or to the 

 approach ; while the less visible portions may 

 be protected by a hedge, with as little bank 

 as possible. It is not necessary that the fence 



