WILL SAVE THOUSANDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 252, 23 October 1937, Page 6

WILL SAVE THOUSANDS

SCOTTISH FARMER S EXPERIMENT. A successful Angus farming experiment has had an interesting development, states the Dundee Advertiser, of August 21. After a good deal of trouble with pigs which “broke out,” Lord Forres, Glenogil, hit upon the idea of enclosing them with a strand of electrified wire. So effective was this measure that the idea has been developed into a scheme which will save the expenditure of thousands of pounds on fencing. Cattle and sheep can be effectively penned behind a fence consisting of a single wire suspended on light poles 60 feet apart. An experimental fence of this kind has been tried out with great success by Mr. J. Barron, the enterprising farmer at Findowrie, near Brechin. There Mr. Barron had a sow which defied all methods ot restraining her in the open. She has not yet managed to get outside the electrified fence. Quite Harmless. A single car battery will keep “alive” 20 miles of wire for three months. The voltage is so small as to be harmless to man or livestock. It is claimed that the new fence

will save 30 per cent, of the cost of fencing posts alone, and that instead of four or five strands of heavy wire running about 400 yards to the cwt., a single wire running 1000 yards to the cwt. will be all that is necessary. There will be no gates to buy. The system can be used as a safeguard against poultry thieves. A special attachment fixed in the farmhouse would give the alarm as soon as the circuit was broken by an intruder.

Lord Forres has appointed Mr. Ferguson,, ironmonger, Brechin, his sole agent in Angus for the revolutionary invention.