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and if the sheep industry is going to be built up we have got 

 to have a class of stock that will make it practicable among 

 those that will take care of them. I do not mean by that 

 scrub stock, but some good ordinary stock that the farmer can 

 make a fair profit from, without having to give them any 

 fancy care. Wool, you know, is worth anywhere from twenty- 

 five to thirty-five, which is very different from what it was a 

 few years ago. I have bought lots of wool for ten cents, but 

 today we are paying anywhere from twenty-five to thirty-five. 

 It seems to me that the inducement to go into the business of 

 sheep raising is good if we can get rid of this everlasting dog 

 question, but, Mr. Chairman, as I said before, I am dis- 

 couraged. 



Professor Brewer. Mr. Chairman, I am not a sheep 

 grower, and have not been since my boyhood, but I have 

 always been interested in this matter of dogs and sheep in this 

 state. My own belief is, and I say it advisedly, that the reason 

 why we do not have an abundance of sheep in this state is 

 dogs, and dogs only. Now it is very easy to say that dogs do 

 not do so much damage, that there is only so much money 

 paid out in this state for damage, but the trouble about that 

 position is that we know that that sum of money does not begin 

 to cover the whole bill. It never will until we can have the 

 dogs restrained. Now what shall we do about it ? I believe in 

 agitating the matter all the time, at every legislature, and while 

 I can hardly hope to live to see the day when we will have a 

 sensible sentiment among the farmers and among our legis- 

 lators in regard to dogs, yet I think that a continual protest 

 upon the part of the farmers will tend to create that sentiment 

 and in time we will have the same condition here that they have 

 brought about in some other places. Dp you hear the 

 Canadians complaining all the time of dogs? I never have. 

 I took the pains many years ago to investigate the matter, and, 

 as many of you know, I have been interested in Connecticut 

 agriculture for a long while. I was connected with the Board 



