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dogs. One belonged to a man who lived on an adjoining farm and the 

 other belonged to a man who lived four miles away, but when his owner 

 knew that I had shot at his dog he was cool to me for five or six years. 



]\Ir. Ziegler: In our State we have the right to shoot a trespassing 

 dog. We have a dog tax and if the owner pays his tax, you are not 

 allowed to shoot his dog in the public road nor where he is not tres- 

 passing, but whenever the dog enters your premises and becomes a tres- 

 passer, he will have to go, that is all there is to it. 



JNIr. King: I want to ask another question about the fences. You 

 stated that sheep were more easily confined that any other class of stock. 



^Ir. Ziegler : Decidedly so. 



Mr. King: What kind of fence do you use? 



Mr. Ziegler: Anything that will hold the sheep. Take a three- 

 board hurdle fence, for instance. Barbed wire is not good. That is 

 getting out of date. The losses that you sustain on your farm will mere 

 than compensate for the difference in the price of your fence. I put 

 barbed wire on top of my fences. I make 38-inch woven wire fence. 

 They cannot get their heads over that and it is all right. An econom- 

 ical fence for all kinds of stock is a thirty-inch fence with three barbed 

 wires above, and a good fence is a twenty-six inch fence with three 

 wires. But I prefer thirty-six to thirty-eight inches and only two barb 

 wires. The only objection to the woven wire fence is that the horses 

 will stretch their necks over them and bend them down, but they will 

 not do that if there is a barb wire on top of them. 



SOME LESSONS FRO^I CATTLE FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. 



(By F. B. ]\Iumford, Prof, of Animal Husbandry, Agricultural College. 



Columbia, Mo.) 



Missouri ranks among the richest states of the Union. Her enor- 

 mous resources are the continual wonder of the people of other states. 

 Her title "Imperial Mistress of States," has been justly earned. When 

 we come to consider the basis for placing Missouri in a pre-eminent 

 place industrially among the states of the Union, we are bound to dis- 

 cover that her industrial greatness is based directly upon agriculture. 

 Unlike many of the wealthy eastern states and some northern states, 

 she is not pre-eminent as a manufacturing center. While her mines 

 contribute to a considerable extent to her great resources, Missouri is 

 not after all one of the greatest mining states, but when we come to 

 compare agricultural resources of ]\Iissouri with those of any other State 



