Interviewer: Like four posts. Speaker: Yeah, they were built with panels and wire. But they- there should be- some of the people call them a patent fence. Yeah. Interviewer: I've heard that- that name. ... Somebody told me that it was because they were sort of special fences- ... That different people had- ... Um, found out how to build.

On Friday, the lads were hunting on my farm. So I go out behind the barn and a doe and a fawn come up through (laughs) and ah the fawn stopped in the lane so it was a patent fence so I shot it through the second and third rail. The space right through the top of the heart. One shot and it dropped dead. So I had it for my own meat.

Speaker: There was one- the only different one that I know of we call it the Bol-- Bolton fence. He put his pickets in a little different and- but other than that they were just- they were called a split rail or- or a patent fence. But they just put in a picket different and- Interviewer: So a patent is different from a split rail? Speaker: Same fence other than either some people call it a patent and some people call it split.