The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-24
BEST AND MOST RooNoMIcAL PENCE


BEST AND MOST ECONOMICAL PENCE
This was the subject discussed at the last meet
ing ofthe Junior Gunpowder Agricultural
Club. We publish below the views of some of
those present:
Mr. T. p. w. France said: II prefer the
wire fence and have put up the coil or crimp
wire with rods. Five wires are used for stock
and eight for pigs. The posts are 20 feet apart
and the rods are placed at feet. A Jones
locker comes with the material and operates
easily. Nos. and 8 wire is used and the double
block and tackle tightens the wires. For
garden fence No. IL wire is put on and l5 wires
strung. On using the feet woven wire barb
wire can be run along to which to tie. This
will make good fence against chickens. Posts
put three feet in the ground, with locust wood
braces and anchors two feet deep, will make
strong ends. use the Kline grip. Anchors
can be made with heavy wire wrapped around
large stones and set well under the ground. If
posts are nOtched they are less liable to pull
out. The wire costs about cents per pound
and the rods so much apiece. Ii the wires are
well stretched small posts or short rails can be
used as ties, saving so many stays. l have
used the barb wire fence without the rods, but
cattle have gotten used to them and managed
to getthrough notwithstanding the barbs stick
the COWS. Stock is liable to be injured severely
by the barb WIRE"
Mr.. E. e Scott said ut depends on the
size of the wire and how much is used as to the
cost of fence. four-wire will cost about %
cts. per 161 feet, provided the posts are set.
Five wires and four stays will cost about the
same. Five wires is used for general fencing
and eight to nine wires for hogs had barb
wire fence for many years and foundit unsafe,
as l nearly lost horse by injuries from the
barbs Stock will nottrouble wire fence but
wooden fence they will rub against. People
climb over and break rail or plank fence more
than they will wire fence"
Mr.. George e. Shelley said II think the
Brown wire fence is most economical which is
made of single wires with stays Inever used
the woven wire. Seven-wire fence costs q
cents rod. Itisimportant to stretch the wires
at first very taut; have large end posts with
good anchors. The Brown stays will go on
the barb and the ribbon wires"
Mr.. W. d. Curry said: II have used the
Brown wire fence and think the Kline clamp,
with which to handle the wires, is the best The
planting and bracing of the posts should be
well done, and the stay or anchor wire can be
secured with heavy stone under the surface
Of the ground. l have used the wheel in
stretching the wires I think for post and
rail fence four rails should be put in. think
concrete posts for wire fence good idea."
Mr.. T. M. Pearce said For public places
where people are inclined to cross fields think
a hedge fence is the best. like post-and-
rail fence with three rails to turn stock and
when good timber is used fence of this kind
is about as cheap and lasts as long as wire
fence
Mr. H. Amoss Matthews said: II put up
the American wire fence with six wires along
the roadway four to five feet high and costs
about 80 cents per rod. The greatest distance
went was 55 rods in one stretch. To do so
had to splice the wire. planted heavy posts
16 feet apart and in the hollow places dug the
holes five feet deep and braced them we'll In
driving in staples drove them well in prob
ably too we'll"
Mr.. H. Arthur Matthews said II have
some of the American fence which is supposed
to be hog proof. think we'll ofthe wire fence
for general purposes
Mr. Laban Sparks said Think the best and
most economical fence is the coilspring wire
and, with heavy end posts, will last as long as
rail fence. Barb wire is very dangerous and
when you have it about the farm it makes
one uneasy, fearing stock will get injured.
think well of concrete posts. The prettiest
fence is the whitewashed board fence"
Mr.. Howard Nelson said THE up to date
fence is the wire fence and the Brown wire is
good material, and any wire is better than
the depth of two feet for iron posts"
Mr.. Walter Hutchins said ~ have been
busy throwing away old fences that have been
surrounded with bushes and briars. l think
we'll of three rails and post fence for pasture
fields. We pasture our fields too closely"
Mr.. Lewis NJ. Bacon said: Il think it ad
visable to use portions of rails in staying wire
fence and favor the single wire way of putting
up the fence. The price of posts in the rough
is ten cents EACH
Mr.. d. s. Pearce said: 1T is heavy work to
get out and put up post fences. Men
are not to be found to do it. I have the frost
coilspring wire fence and used five wires on a
stretch of105rods and did it in seven hours with
five men. If a tree is used as post or tie the
wire should not be wrapped around it, as it will
kill the tree. My farm is well supplied with
post. andrail fence, but would prefer the wire
if the timber were given me. seven wire
fence costs about q cents per rod. Care should
be exercised in crossing hollow or bitches so
as not to have an unshapely line of fence"
ONE OF the newly-elected members of the
Oregon Legislature announces his intention of
introducing at the next session bill making
it crime to shoot any person under the belief
that such person is a deer or a canvas back
duck. Don't laugh. That kind of legislation
is after all good deal more sensible than the
common run of law-making.
THE JERSEY cow Pedros Estella, the cham
pion butter maker of her breed in the world,
died as the result of an accident at the Missouri
College Farm a few days ago. In twelve
months this wonderful animal produced 712
l. L. 1ar