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and there being drawn upon to pay damage claims, I want to 

 say that I tliink that would be a good move, and that that is 

 the proper way for that money to be appHed. Now we know 

 that all of these towns that are near the cities are suffering 

 from damage done by these city dogs. I am not able to tell 

 anything about the number of dogs that there is in this State 

 kept in cities as compared with the towns, but the bulk of the 

 population being in the large cities and towns, of course, they 

 must contain by far the greater number of dogs, and I believe 

 that the number of sheep annually killed by dogs from these 

 places will be found to be much the greater number. I have 

 heard of instances, as where dogs come out from a city like 

 Middletown and kill sheep in Berlin, and the town of Berlin 

 had to suffer for that, when the damage was not done by dogs 

 kept in that town at all. 



Mr. Farnham. Along that very line I think I can give 

 a little information. There are farmers out here on the farms 

 of Cheshire and Hamden whom I believe would keep a large 

 number of sheep if it was not for the dogs that come out frorrt 

 New Haven. There are thousands of acres of land back here 

 on these hills in the immediate vicinity of New Haven where^ 

 there is not one single sheep and there will not be, in my 

 opinion, until every dog is restrained just the same as they 

 are restrained on account of panic from rabies. 



I would like to say this in regard to fences to keep out 

 dogs. Fences can be made no doubt to keep out dogs, but I 

 should like to know how that compares with the cost of build- 

 ing ordinary fences. I would like to fence in a field of, say 

 a hundred acres, with dog-proof fence, but I think there is a 

 pretty large cost to build a nine-wire fence five feet high, such 

 as you would have to have, as I understand it, to keep dogs 

 out and sheep in. I would have to have a fence like that 

 around the entire tract, and to build two or three miles of 

 fence of that kind would be pretty costly. We cannot do it. 



