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Show Electric 'Cowboy' Will Aid Ranchers Economic Way to Keep Stock on Home Pastures Come spring, an electric "cowboy" "cow-boy" will ride the range to help farmers and ranchers keep their stock in the pasture and out of planted fields. This cowboy is the old stand-by 6-volt Winchester "Hot Spark" battery bat-tery that years ago gave a balky-model balky-model T a frosty-morning pickup. Cowboy Hot Spark is more useful than ever on the farm now because he's the waterproof dry cell bucka-roo bucka-roo that makes the "touch-me-not" electric fence a safe and economical economi-cal way to keep the stock where it belongs. Electric fencing with the use of dry cell batteries is one of the far- ' mers' most inexpensive means to keep his stock where he wants it. ELECTRIC FENCE HEIGHTS IN INCHES J MORSES 30--4O j F sjfc f" COWS 3Q-36 j Cfy'l'y CALVES VET, . '0-I8 SHEEP GOATS ; jyfe 'M H fri 6-i6 Pigs t jJi'T Clearly illustrated are the correct heights for electric fence. In states where barbed wire is legal, it Is usually preferred. pre-ferred. according to W. S. Allen, general manager of the electrical division of Olin Industries, inc., who is a farmer far-mer to boot. Little or' no knowledge of electricity elec-tricity is required as reliable fence-controllers fence-controllers approved by underwritten, underwrit-ten, 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 to make permanent installations. instal-lations. Metal or wood fence posts are suitable. Posts to fence horses should be from 40 to 50 feet apart. Twenty-five to 40 feet apart is satisfactory satis-factory for smaller animals. In states where barbed wire is le-- J gal, it is usually preferred. Like any other electric fence wire, it I should be fastened to the posts by insulators and should not come into-direct into-direct contact with posts, weeds or the ground. Inexpensive solid type, but never split type, glass or porcelain porce-lain insulators should be used rather than old rubber or necks of bottles. Substitutes are a poor economy as they don't work well or last long. Where gates are required, attach the wire to a spring to maintain tension ten-sion and continue the wire through the center of a wood or rubber handle han-dle to a hook to fasten to a continua- tion of the wire on the other side of the gate. ' How high the wire should be strung from the ground depends upon up-on the size of the animals to be fenced. Generally, you measure the distance to the ground from about the middle of the animals' head when grazing. Following are fence heights for various animals: 6 to 16 inches pigs 12 to 18 inches calves 10 to 18 inches sheep, goats 30 to 36 inches .... cows 30 to 40 inches horses With your fence built, just attach Cowboy Hot Spark and a grounded fence controller and you're in business busi-ness to charge a fence that can be twelve to fifteen miles long. And "Hot Spark" will last five or six months before you need to replace your dry cell cowboy. |