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Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1940, Page 18 (Supplement)

COBURN THE ORIGINAL ONE WIRE ELECTRIC FENCE ASLllcORELYTOil AT ON™ XKOST CONCRETE OR STEEL OF ORDINARY FENCING The manner in which the Electric Fence has Rccict This ! been accepted by Farmers throughout the Messrs. levin & co., ltd., United States of America and also in New machinery department. I Zpaland ^ives the best Dractical testimony as Dear Sirs,-The fence erected is two barbed wires, twelve inches apart 1 i . | and twelve inches above the ground, making it two feet high. Both wires | to its astoundmg value. £jp| are uvened uP. ?! TL- »A/;>o ■ r~ ri I K-1 -frnm nnctc SD fpp t This fence gives every satisfaction with both cattle and sheep, also | Ihe Single Wire run trom POSTS OU Teer with ordinary or rotational grazing. apart. A small charge of electricity, abso Ute During the three months this fence has been in use no cattle whatever P Iv h^irmles^ to humans or livestock, goes ,n have ever gone over. During the first two weeks a-few sheep got through ji Y ii- X. A (not more than six) but, since then, no sheep have ever bothered it in any r\ through the wire every few seconds. Operat- way. 1 ed from a 6-Volt Dry Battery, the current is The tests we have put it to may be of interest to you. It has been I I sufficient to charge a Ten-Mife Fence for 3 or tested for rotational grazing with both cattle and sheep-810 sheep, 50 I 11 1 ^ v" c> Mai.; ■ U,WJ* cattle, m one mob. 1 ^ mOnthS. The first test was to divide a paddock of about forty or fifty acres, I m. j + nnmprnns: Nnt onlv putting the mob mentioned (810 sheep, 50 cattle) on one side of the electric 4 I advantages from this fence aie wot on y mgmm? fonce until the grass was eatcn right out, but no sheep or cattle went d are fencing' costs kept down to a minimum — approximately through. I one-fifth — but pastures can be changed from time to time TVT/V ^V/^^^^"DTT, ' , „ i of o minimnrvi nf fi-nnVilp and inconvenience |\ I I VI I I Ia, Fj It was tested with three different mobs of cattle, the first fifty steers I ?t a mimmum of trouble and raconvemjmce. AlV ^d heifers, the second twenty cows and calves, the third eighty-six cows || Instead of bemg caught m the wne and ciit, stocK q y with sixty calves, with the same results each time; naihely, no stock went become a'ccustomed to the fence and keep clear. Old fences, riAfimT it TnT"ivr/"Trvr/'> /^/WTnn'D A through. too, can be used just by stringmg the wire along the in- _ COSTLY FENCING CON IKAC1S • 0„ca th, .d„ca«d th. d«Mc ien« h.y „m not 8o SUiatorS. . , - T through, even if there is no current on. This- test has been proved by Installation is.so simple that lt takes only a few minutes to T>0^jrr|AAT r K 1\ i ; TiN switching off the current for twenty-four hours' and no stock went through. put the fence up, and no knowledge of electricity is neces- UHjY/IVAJI ^ This has been a very interesting experixnent indeed. THE ELECTRIC FENCE IS THE GREATEST TIME, — STOCK BREAKING OUT ^ BKoS„ farmersA^dMlivIItock owners for many — EXPENSIVE PADDOCK ROTATION 1 ' Per Hamish Angus. 8 YEARS. II , v 1 '• : : : ' 7 " ' V . "i"" ' , . 1 1 1 ; — ' — Complete with 6-Yolt Dry Battery, 50 Insulators, Lightning Arrester, Earth Clamp and full instructions £12/10/- Battery £14/10/ - ) NEW PLYMOUTH NEWTON K1NG LTD. AND BRANCHES |