ELECTRIC FENCE
USE FOR GRAZING GROUNDS. A now contrivance for the fencing of grazing grounds has been installed on seme estates in Sweden. The device consists of a battery, which is connected with an ordinary steel wire a few millimetres thick, and which is attached to ordinary fencing posts, but insulated from them by porcelain insulators.
This wire is charged with electric current from the battery about once every lOsecs.. and the whole, apparatus works something like an induction apparatus. To touch the wire means receiving a shock, but one which is dangerous neither to man nor boast. The cost of the equipment is reltftively low. and effective results are given, for the animals have been found to take groat care not to come Into contact with the wire.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 5
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129ELECTRIC FENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 5
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