Interviewer: Yeah. Um, what kinds of fences did you have back then? Speaker: Well, ah, mostly- there was some stump fences. I never had to do with any of that. Some stone fences, loud fences. Rail, crooked rail. Wire. Wire came in in my day. They were all- were all loud fences prior to that, pretty much, I mean I helped to fence our place on with the wire.

Speaker: Well, where there was pine- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Yeah, where there was pine they tried to- upset them- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Up for to make fences. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. And there is an odd one through the country yet of pine stump fences. Interviewer: I've seen them in some parts. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Did they use the stones as well for that purpose?

Speaker: Stone fence. Or a stone wall. We called them both. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Yeah. There used to be lots of them too. And then we used to have the stump fence. Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: They'd- you took the stumps out of the ground and they'll clean up the ground, they turn them up you-see on their edge and ah they'd stick it way up in there.

Interviewer: But you- you didn't have many of that sort of around here being made? Speaker: No, not at nighttime anyway. No. 'Cause they'd rot down you-see? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. But they call them a stump fence. Interviewer: It would be mainly rock fences or um snake fences. Speaker: Yeah.

Interviewer: Tell me about uh, the kinds of fences that people used in those days to separate their fields, it seems to me that there was a variety of kinds of fences. Speaker: Yes, at first, I guess the first fences were log fe- were uh- were stump fences and where- any place where there were a lot of rocks that they had in the fields that they had to uh, to tear off the rocks they put up stone fences and then from- from that they went to uh- to the log fences ...