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spare ; a little Scotch Skye, that picks up the paper and 

 brings it home to my breakfast table. There are a good 

 many more like him. What is to be done then ? I can look 

 back sixty years, when sheep were kept in the woods, and 

 they would run all summer, and in the fall they were brought 

 in and put under shelter. Why cannot the same thing be 

 done now just as well as then ? Oh, the dogs 1 What is to 

 be done ? I qan tell you. Dogs now are allowed to run at 

 large. They are taxed ; they are property, — which is per- 

 fectly right. I have no more right to kill my neighbor's dog 

 than I have to kill his horse, if I understand the matter 

 right. Those dogs must be cared fqr in some way or other. 

 Make a law, then, that those dogs shall be broken. I have 

 broken a good many dogs. I will tell you how I did it. Take 

 a dog six months old ; let him go into a field, and he will 

 always chase the first thing that he sees run. If he attacks 

 a sheep, whip him severely. I never saw one that molested 

 a sheep a second time. 



Mr. ScoviLLE. The plan of breaking dogs did not work 

 with me. I have kept a flock of sheep for sixty years, and 

 never had more than one or two killed during that time. A 

 year ago I put a young dog into a stable about ten feet 

 square, and put in three large bucks and they went at him 

 and pounded him until he wasn't anything but jelly ; I 

 thought they were going to kill him, and I flung him out into 

 a field where there was a flock of sheep, and the first thing 

 he did was to put for them ! (Laughter.) 



Mr. Bill. I want to say a word in favor of sheep culture. 

 I believe that mixed farming pays the Connecticut farmer to- 

 day better than special farmmg. In my opinion, it is best 

 for the farmer to keep stock, to keep sheep, to keep anything 

 and everything upon his farm that he may think will pay. 

 To-day, or this year, perhaps raising lambs and selling them 

 will pay better than anything else. Next year, it may be 

 that raising Devons will pay better than anything else. The 

 way in which I have managed since I have been carrying on 



