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Mr. Maitland : You said in seventy-five days, ycur sheep "nade a 

 gain of thirty-five pounds. Can you not make a greater gain with hogs ? 



]\Ir. Ziegler: Yes, but it requires more feed. A hog can gain 

 much faster than a slieep, but it takes a great deal more corn. A hog 

 eats corn all of the time and just a little of some other feed, while a 

 sheep eats hay or grass all the time with just a little corn. It takes 

 high priced feed to finish your sheep, but with the hog, it takes high 

 priced feed from the word go. 



Mr. jNIaitland : Our hogs run on blue grass all the summer. 



Mr. Ziegler: I find that I have to feed grain all the time. If 

 you turn your hogs on blue grass pasture without grain you will not 

 get very much out of them. 



How is the best way to get rid of the dogs? 



Mr. Ziegler: Strychnine is the best thing to use. If you go to 

 shooting the dogs, some of your neighbors will get angry and you will 

 get into trouble, but if any dogs come around your house at night, just 

 try a little grain of strychnine in his feed and the morning, go around 

 and pick it up. Now I do not know about your laws, but in our State 

 you cannot purchase strychnine unless you are a sheep man, if you 

 have not that law, you want to get it. 



Mr. King: This dog question is one thing that keeps us from 

 raising sheep. I would rather not have sheep than get in trouble with 

 my neighbors. There is no use talking about a license law unless public 

 sentiment endorses the law sufficiently to keep it in force. And how 

 are we going to raise public sentiment to that point? 



Mr. Ziegler: It takes a certain class of men, irresponsible and 

 with no respect for the law, to raise dogs. Our country is getting 

 settled up with stockmen, cattlemen and horsemen and they will allow 

 no one to go over their fields with a dog and when they see a dog 

 around their premises they go for him with a double-barrel shot gun. 

 We have had cases in our neighborhood where dogs have even attacked 

 the cattle. A man told me that a boy with a hound and cur dog started 

 to go through his field to hunt rabbits in an adjoining field and the dogs 

 ran his horses into a barbed wire fence and cut one of them all to 

 .pieces. The farmers in our country have just gotten down to the point 

 where they won't have dogs. 



]\Ir. King: The dogs hurt my cattle eight or ten years ago :xnd 

 I took my gun and went into the field and shot them at long range and 

 the next day my neighbor came to see me and said that I had killed 

 his dog. I knew nothing about it, but he sued me for the value of that 

 dog. The story has a laughable sequel. I recovered three dollars dam- 

 ages for his dog's trespass on my place. I did not know either of the 



