To supply a wire rod without collapse.

While paying out the wire rod, guiding it to a wire drawing machine while holding it with pinch rolls 52 and after putting up it between a hanger 51 and the wire drawing machine, successively, the pinch rolls 52 are opened, the wire rod is supplied to the wire drawing machine. A paying out speed of the wire rod of a wire rod supplying apparatus 50 is set faster than a drawing-in speed of the wire rod of the wire drawing machine 30. When spreading of the wire rod is detected, a rotation of the hanger 51 is decelerated to eliminate spreading of the wire rod, successively, a paying out speed of the wire rod is returned to an initial speed.