Show Electric Cowboy Will Rid Hid Ranchers Economic Way to Keep Stock on Home Pastures Come spring an electric cowboy cowboy cowboy cow boy will ride the range to help farmers and ranchers keep their stock tock In hi the pasture and out of ot planted fields field This cowboy Is the old stand standby volt 6 Winchester not Hot Spark battery bat tery that years ago gave a balky model T a morning frosty pickup Cowboy Hot not Spark is more useful than ever on the farm now because hes he's the waterproof dry cell buckaroo bucka bucka- roo that makes the touch not electric fence o Q safe and economical cal way to keep the stock where It belongs Electric fencing with the use of ot dry cell batteries Is one of the farmers farmers farmers' far mers' mers most Inexpensive means to keep his stock where he be wants want it It ELECTRIC FENCE HEIGHTS IN INCHES rOJO cows lOIS r. r n ne ewes I to ie 66 Clearly Illustrated are the correct corred heights for fence In states where barbed wire Is legal leral It U Is usually pre pro according to to W. W S. S Allen AUen general manager of the electrical division of Olin Industries inc who Is a farmer farmer far tar mer to boot Little or no knowledge of electricity elec clec is required as reliable fence controllers approved by tern which keep the current going to the electric fence intermittently many times a minute come with simple instructions easy to follow Electric fence wire can be moved from one location to another but It Is best oost to make permanent lations Metal or wood fence posts are suitable Posts to fence horses should be from 40 to 50 feet apart Twenty-five Twenty to 40 feet apart is satisfactory satisfactory satis factory for smaller animals In states where barbed wire is le legal legal le- le gal it Is usually preferred Like any other electric fence wire 11 It i should be fastened to the posts poste by Insulators and should not corne come Into direct contact with posts weeds or orthe orthe orthe the ground Inexpensive solid type but never split type glass or porcelain porcelain porcelain lain Insulators should be used rather than old rub rubber r or necks of bottles Substitutes are a poor economy as 81 they dont don't work well or last long Where gates are required attach the wire to a spring to maintain tension tension ten ten- sion stop and continue the wire through the center of a wood or rubber handle bandie han ban dle die to a hook to fasten to a continuation continuation continuation continua continua- tion of the wire on the other side of the gate How high the wire should be strung from the ground depends UPon upon upon up UP- on the size of the tha animals to be fenced Generally you measure the distance to the ground from about the middle of the tho animals' animals head when grazing grating Following are fence heights for various animals 6 to 16 18 Inches plea pigs 12 lZ to 18 Inches calves 10 to 18 Inches sheep goats oats 30 to 36 38 Inches cows COWl 30 SO to 40 Inches horses With your fence built Just attach Cowboy Hot Het Spark and a grounded fence controller and youre you're in business business business busi busi- ness to charge a fence that can be twelve to fifteen miles mUes long And Hot Spark will last five or sU six months before you need t to replace your dry cell cowboy |