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The heaviest TAX we pay is for building and keeping up our Fences; and,

like all other taxes, none of it ever returns to our pockets. | Whether we have

‘a fence Law or not, weare obliged to have fences of some kind, and that device

which reduces this tax to the lowest possible figure is certainly the plan for the
people.

Now, as meeting every requirement exactly, our attention has been
directed to the

which was introduced during the Winter of 1874, and to understand why it has
grown so rapidly in public favor, let us examine the following

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS :

To Build 100 Rods Requires

Rails 2000, at $1.00 per hundred, $20.08
Labor, - i= - - - - ~ 2.00

Total, $22.00

One dollar per hundred for rails is a low estimate; gen-
erally they will cost nearer twice that. If twice, then 100
rods of the “ELIASON FENCE” will cost $10.60 less
than the same length of Worm Fence.

Corners in this grow full of briars, sprouts, &c.

This occupies about seven feet in width for the entire
length.

This floats away in high water.

Winds often blow this down.

Cattle and hogs sometimes toss the rails off this.

Ground rails and laps rot first in this.

Rails last from ten to twelve years in this,

This is built with difficulty on hill-sides.

_ This cannot be substituted for a portable fence.

HLIASON FENCE
To Build 100 Rods Requires
Rails, 1080 at $1.00 per hundred, $10.80

Stakes, 180, at $1.00 per hundred, - ‘ 1.80
Wire, (No. 12,) 60 Ibs at 7cts per Ibs., 4.20
Labor, < - - - - - 2.00

$18.80

A saving in favor of this fence of $3.20 in each 100 rods,

(counting the rails at $1.00 per hundred), besides saving in
the same distance 920 rails.

Being straight this has no_ corners.

This occupies about a foot and a half in width the entire
length.

This never floats.

Winds cannot move this.

This is proof against breachy stock.

Neither laps nor ground rails in this to rot.

In this rails last from twenty to twenty-five years.

This is built as easily on hill-sides as elsewhere.

This answers all the purposes of a portable fence—it is a
great deal cheaper, and in some respects much better.

Total, = - = s

Enough! The subject is not exhausted, by any means, but what has been said will cause my brother

farmers to put on their thinking caps.

For further information address

NAT. RAYMER,

Statesville, N. C.,
Prop’r of Letters Patent No. 164,279.

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