| Show DISCARD BARBED WIRE FENCE injury to alve stock especially horses has brought it into disfavor barb wire should not be used as a beace on any farm declare the farm ers there was a time when it was extensively used in all parts of the country but now the smooth wire has driven t barbed he very largely except on the western ranches it is only occasionally now we ser barbed wire u ed for fencing in and adjacent states here and there however i farmer still clings to the old v ire there is one farm about 20 miles from chicago where a part of atje b gainess is pasturing hor es the roise pasture there I 1 in ath barbed wire but it la very prohibit tl at the men who send their boises to be pastured have no idea that barat 1 ire is used for fene ing the baab on tl e wire is of no value to an animal he learns by being wo blat it pain it in flicks pain by ca i in a wo nd blood poisoning sometimes letl in from wounds of this kind and the animal dies all kinds of animals have been terribly cut up by barbed wire fences cows have had their udders laid open by trying to climb over such fences even when the top wire Is a smooth one horses frequently get barbed wire wounds in their legs this kind of a wound Is most corn mon the horses push their legs through the wire and the wound is made in trying to draw the toot out some of our states have laws against placing barbed wire fences along the highways but in many lo 10 calit les these laws are unknown or disregarded the barbed wire fences cost as much as the smooth wire it we bake into consideration the greater trouble of handling the wire and of putting it up doubtless many a man has been scratched and blood poison ing has ensued from handling anis wire the only difference in cost is less than the difference in price of the two wires smooth wire may be taken down and put up again with a great deal of facility but barbed wire Is very difficult to change from one location to another after it has been once put up we are glad to note that the sentiment against barbed wire Is growing the time will come when it will not be used either in thickly set tied states or in sparsely settled ones |
