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Important Many farmers neglect the special training of their stock, but we have found that the ones who TRAIN their stock to the electric fence are invariable SATISFIED. Cattle seem to learn respect for the electric fence about as quickly as any stock. More patience is required for pigs and sheep, but there is no reason in the world for any of your stock not learning to stay away from your SURGE Fence wire. Training is a simple matter. String a wire connected to the fencer across the barnyard or the corner of a field, and then tempt the stock with some choice feed placed in front of the fence and extending a short distance beyond. DO NOT DRIVE THE STOCK INTO THE FENCE. The best results come by letting them find out for themselves gradually what is in that harmless looking wire. Frisky heifers sometimes give a little trouble, so don't let them get excited and charge the fence before they have gotten a sting. Some SURGE owners let their heifers in with the older cows to find out about the electric fence. There's a good change that if you just turn your animals into a field they will learn about the electric fence without any training, but we're certain that you will get better results if you do train your stock. Remember This about Electric Fencing WEEDS  "Weeds along the fences scatter seeds across the fields"... and short your fence. One of the big advantages of the increased use of electric fencing is in the control of weeds. Certainly The Surge Fencer will kill some weeds... so will any other electric fence that is operating... BUT... It is easy to move the fence, work the land, and smother out the weeds. A weed hatchery along the fence rows can cause many extra weeks of work in the fields every summer. We appreciate just how hard it is for a man to tear down a good fence, but it is something that is being done more and more. that is a wholly wrong and uneconomical way to kill the weeds under your fence because you are using up the current that you have put out on the wire to stop the stock. A leaky fence is just as bad as a leaky pail, and a fence that is busy killing weeds is always leaking. BULLS  A one wire electric fence will USUALLY hold the most vicious bull, but we are not telling you to put just this once wire by itself between you and a bull. Among the unusual things that come up with electric fencing, we heard about the bull who learned he couldn't get a shock through his horns. With typical bull logic he decided the next step was to tear the electric fence down, and this be began to do with his horns. When a bull gets mad and really starts to go places, he won't pay any attention to a shock, jab or blow. You simply have to hold him by brute force... some kind of husky fence that he just can't push down. A bull will learn to respect a charged wire though, and you won't have to do much repairing of the regular enclosure. If he gets a shock through the ring in his nose, then he gets a sting that reaches down to his roots. He REALLY respects the fence then. His owner was smarted though. He put a chain on the bull's head. The next time the bull tried to use his horns on the wire, he got a SHOCK. He was willing to leave it alone after that. Which reminds us, many Surge Owners have cured animals of trying to get over an electric fence by hanging a chain around their necks. That direct contact with the fence really socks them!