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Mr. Cottou: We li.ul a tost ease in Hamilton Connty. A slioep grower 

 at Zionsvillc had kiilctl in two nifi;lits fonr luindred ilollars worth of 

 shot'p. Ill' canii* to nie and asl<ed my advice. I told him to follow the 

 law and have them appraised. They appraised his buck lambs at fifteen 

 dollars ai)iece, because he was selling them at that. The township 

 trustee refused to pay. I told liim to sue for the amount, and he brought 

 suit in the Circuit Court at Xoblesville. The trustees had a lot of butchers 

 there Avho liad gone and looked at the sheep and appraised them at the 

 nnirket i)rice. Tliey said tliey were worth a certain price in the butcher 

 market. Tiiat is all tlie market tliey knew of. We proved by other men 

 that they were wortli fifteen dollars apiece, and the court took oiu' view 

 of the ease. Througli some technicality the Supreme Court dismissed 

 the ease. If we stand firm on that line we can get the price they are 

 worth. The .iudg«' of the Circuit Court said he coidd see that there 

 might l)e more than one market for auy kind of stock. The reason 

 oin- suit was dismissed was because an attorney had made some mistake 

 in the papers. 



Mr. Harshbarger, Sr. : I have handled and fed sheep since I was eight 

 years old. Some twenty years ago I conceived the idea that if I could 

 get all my neighbors to keep sheep we would not have so many killed. 

 I had a lot of sheep brought from Canada that cost me seven dollars 

 a head. They arrived in the winter, and a few days after I sheared them 

 the dogs got hold of them and killed 27 out of 02. The appraisers ap- 

 praised them at two and tliree dollars a head. I said I wanted Avliat 

 they cost me. I had ten lambs in the bunch that I had been offered ten 

 dollars apiece for. "What the dogs did not kill were so badly scared that 

 they were injured, and sooner or later I lost the whole Hock. Then I 

 began to think tliat if more of the neighbors had sheep there would not 

 be so many sheei)-killing dogs kept. I encouraged a few of the neighiiors 

 to buy small flocks, got my renters to buy a few, and some of my friends 

 got their renters to kec]) sheej). and since that time we have not had so 

 many killed. I liave nnticed that it is usually the renters arid other 

 poor men that keep the sheep-killing dogs. We have all concluded now 

 that Av<' will comiH'l them to disjjose of them. A friend of mine in 

 l»enver. Indiana, said they wei'e organized uj) there, and that they doctored 

 tlie dogs. When a man had siieep killed his friends from several miles- 

 distant would come over and i)ut food for the dogs where they could get 

 it, jind then when lliey liad sheep killed they returned the favor, and 

 between tliein tiicy nianagtd to keep the dou's cleaned out. 



Memb<M-: I lliink every <log should lie kept sluif up or lied up from 

 seven in the evening until seven in the morning. I think if the I-egis- 

 lature would make a law compelling owners of dogs to do this we would 

 hav<' no sheep killed. 



