He built an electric fence to keep these pests at bay. Much like the electric fences used for large mammals like horses or cows, this fence is designed to deter, but not kill slugs and snails.

Making sure that an electric fence which is keeping one’s cattle and sheep from wandering off is still working properly seems like a fairly daunting task, especially when this fence is quite a ...

Electric fence demonstrations made the papers in the 1930s. Kem Ormond takes a look at the world of farming back in the day. Electric fencing started to appear in the newspapers in the 1930s.