Show SAFE BARBWIRE FENCE Plough a furrow on the line of the fence and let It lie Plough another and throw It upon and beyond the first one with a shovel Now plough back anti forth In the ditch shoveling the earth upon the ban until tho slope from the top of the ridge to the bottom bot-tom of the ditch is Home three feet long If good flat stones are at hand smooth off the top of the bank and lay a course or two making a single wall a foot say In height Drive the posts through tho bank so tho wire will be In line with it and put on the wire Stock will see this kind of fence much easier than where smooth ground runs up to and under and beyond It and there are only tho wires strung between be-tween distant posts Such a bnnk with or without stones Is very permanent both bank and ditch soon grassing over It Is a short Job to make It every shovelful of dirt counts twice for tho ridge It makes and the hole It leaves and the cattle always suppose the U J depth of the ditch Is part of the height of the fence I have a bank like this made ten years ago which now carries three barbwires on posts a rod apart The top wire is about four feet from the top of the ridge and the slanting line from it to the bottom of the ditch Is six feet long it thus being far above the cows heads The chance that stock will ever come In violent contact with I these barbs seems slight indeed At least It has not happened so far Jly stock think barbwire fence a good thing to keep away fr > > m entirely E S Gilbert In New York Tribune |