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M. A. Hardin, Decatnr, Meigs county : We had very few killed while 

 the dog law was in operation. 



Geo. W. Atchley, Decatur, Meigs county : From one-half to three- 

 fourths of the entire amount of sheep. 



Wm. C. Doughtenson, Waverly, Humphreys county: About ten per 

 cent, destroyed by dogs. 



J. S. Lindsay, Campbell county : Five hundred head destroyed, worth 

 $1,500. 



Elijah Dougherty. Johnson county : In the last three years but few, 

 but previous to the dog law one-fourth were killed, including lambs. 

 Sheep husbandry could be made very remunerative in this country if it 

 were not for the dogs. I know no branch of industry that would pay so 

 well. We have thousands of acres lying dormant, that would make the 

 best sheep-walks, that cannot be utilized for any other purpose. Are we 

 never to have any protection for the rearing of this useful animal? 



Geo. T. Allman, Cornersville, Giles county: I think twenty per cent, 

 of our sheep are, annually killed by worthless dogs. 



Lorenzo Stratton, Grassy Cove: Twenty per cent, of the sheep of this 

 county are said to have been killed by dogs within the last thirty days. 



J. A. Jones, Cannon county : A great many. The dogs commenced 

 soon after the dog law was repealed. 



Some of our sheep-raisers have adopted the plan of not 

 permitting the freed in en employed by them on the farm to 

 keep any dogs. They find it greatly reduces the number of 

 worthless curs prowling around. 



A most effectual method to stop the production of trifling 

 dogs, and one that will inflict no injury on any one, is a 

 law imposing a tax upon bitches. By the influence of such 

 a law, the many worthless curs and mongrels would be de- 

 stroyed, while good ones would be retained. The fear of 

 popular favor, however, renders it extremely doubtful if 

 any law protecting sheep from dogs will ever be enacted. 

 It is strange, too, when the wool and meat of the sheep 

 clothes and feeds a large portion of the human family, and 

 the hair of the dog never clothed, nor his flesh never fed, 

 any class but savages. 



[From the New York "South."] 



"The canine onslaught in the towns and cities, North 

 and South, on account of the fear of the horrors of hydro- 



