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are made and what they effect the livestock. This are the only examples I am going to give you because if I give you all the examples I will be writing a book. Barbed wire was designed to injure cattle and to be effective, so the livestock would stay fenced in, and barbed wire is the wire to do the job cattlemen and livestock raisers wanted so that's why barbed wire' played any important part in the history of fencing in the west. This is why 4is barbed wire is still in greater use ithe livestock business and will be in use for a great number of years until somebody, some- where will invent something be*thrbed wire.
The Wire That Fenced The West, by Henry D. and Frances T. McCallum,