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Show IH UU. WT 4 A LESSON WELL TAUGHT B BY BARBED WIRE. Will barbed wire go out of general Use? That question has been pro-- pro-- "pounded because the forest supervisors super-visors in Washington and Oregon have discontinued the ubc of the wire on their forests. tfhey say bar.bed wlr,e has no advantage over smooth wire, that It injures stock, and that It Is more likely to be borne down by soft snow. Stockmen ou the t Ochoco forest, In Oregon, recently j constructed drift fenceB of smooth j wire, though with some miBglvings; i now they say they will never use I'' barbed wire again. After long yearB of service, barbed B-JL1 broughtall kinds of livestock V to fear ""any form of wire f encing. Even cattle on the Vange and wild horses in the mountains of Utah keep free from the wire fence, having learned to avoid the barbs which, when rubbed against, cut deep gashes often leaving festering sores. These rough experiences may be takon advantage ad-vantage of by stockmen using plain wire, as livestock will not attompt to break through any form of wire-fence wire-fence obstruction. |