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Show Shocking the Animals Is Practiced on Some Farms The Idaho experiment station found In a recent survey many uses for electric fence equipment besides be-sides those usually advocated. For Instance, says the Country Home Magazine, one farmer was using an electric "poker" to facilitate cattle loading. Another farmer had a charged wire around the inside of a scale fence to keep animals on the platform. Other uses included wiring stalls to teach horses or bulls not to attempt to break out; protecting flower gardens from night raids; educating range animals to avoid wire, thereby reducing wire cuts; preventing hogs from rooting under a woven wire fence; breaking horses of halter pulling by putting a charged wire back of them; checking check-ing the spread of Bang's disease by cows which nose one another across line fences. Some Idaho farmers are working on the idea of repelling Jack rabbits rab-bits by means of electrified wire. Another survey made in Illinois on farms which had used electric fence for several years showed favorable results, but also demonstrated that one wire was not sufficient to stop pigs and other small animals. However, How-ever, animals that have been shocked a few times soon learn to avoid all wires, so that it is not necessary to keep the fence continually con-tinually charged. |