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SOUTHEKN CULTIVATOR. 
IMPROVED WIRE I'lBTTING FSHGE. 
ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF RAILROADS, FARMS, PRAIRIE LANDS AND LAWNS ; ENCLOSURES FOR 
HENERIES ; TRELLIS FOR GRAPE“VINES, ARBORS AND ARCHES ; PROTECTION 
FOR WINDOWS OF CHURCHES, MILLS AND WORKSHOPS. 
Some years have elapsed since fences began to be constructed of iron. Continual use in England, France and 
the United States has established the fact, that they possess many important advantages; and hence their em- 
ployment has become a matter of general interest. Their durability has been placed beyond question by frequent 
and repeated experiments, while their cheapness and efficiency are no longer matters of mere experiment, but ac- 
knowledged facts. 
Wire fences, necessarily firm and durable, as a concequence of the material of which they are constructed, are now 
manufactured at a trifling cost. The grand requisites of an effective and economical fence are strength, lightness, dur- 
ability, portability and cheapness. In very few of these particulars have any of the old varieties been found perfect. 
Deficient in some one important point, they have soon become deficient in all, and hence, as a natural consequence, 
few or none of them have become generally popular. In view of the repeated failures of inventive genius to produce 
a suitable fence for farm purposes, certain parties essayed to put forward a stye of enclosure which, formed wholly of 
iron wire, would be made with readiness to meet at least the following requirements: 1, lightness; 2, strength; 3, 
portability ; 4, durability. It is believed these desiderata have been attained at the present time. Wire fences are 
found to meet demands that were previously unsupplied, and in England, as in this country, their use, thus far, hag 
been attended with considerable success. 
Wire fences possess advantages over others, in that they disfigure no landscape, obstruct no lawn ; and that they 
enhance, rather than destroy, the symmetry and beauty of ornamental grounds. Needing few or no repairs, pulling 
heavily upon no man’s purse, and susceptible of receiving the most tasteful forms, the wire fence may justly be voted 
a good thing. 
The entire fence is so made that it may be rolled up like a carpet, when 1 600 square feet of surface may be contained 
in 30 cubic feet of space. 
This fencing is impassable to all kinds of stock, it does not “hold” the wind, and can never be blown down in a 
gale or washed away by a flood, as it offers so slight a resistance to the wind and the current. Fire cannot burn it 
down, when the posts are of iron. In fact, it is a wind, water and fire-proof fence. 
PRICES FOR WIRE NETTINGS. 
No. 1—3 
feet 9 inches high, 3 inches mesh, 
4 
lateral wires No. 10, 
No. 2—3 
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No. 4—2 
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No. 5—1 
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No. 6—3 
“ 9 
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4 
No. 7—3 
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No. 14, weight, 10 pounds per rod, 15J^ feet $2 25 
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Nos. 1, 2,3, and 4 for fences are admirably adapted, proof against sheep, hogs and dogs, and more especially ser- 
viceable against chickens ; the long-sought-for desideratum m protecting poultry yards, gardens and the like. 
No. 5 is used for all kinds of trellis-work as well as for low fences and surmounting fences. 
Nos. 6 and 7, — The most practical barriers against cattle, sheep, &c. Emphatically, a Railroad and Prairie 
Fence. 
No. 8. — Nettings for v/indow protection, used in church windows, and mill, factory, and workshop windows. 
The following illustrations explain the manner of putting up the nettings : 
WIRE NETTING WITH IRON POSTS AND STONE BLOCKS. 
When iron uprights are used to support the nettings, they are fastened into stone blocks with brimstone : when 
wooden blocks are used, the pests are driven into cuts or holes prepared in top of the blocks, 
