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folii) and is well known as a deadly poison to sheep and 

 cattle. 



Taking all these facts into consideration, we feel that we 

 can commend this industry to all classes of people, alike to 

 the landlord and renter, to the owner of a few acres and to 

 the plantation of the once wealthy farmer, who, having lost 

 his laborers, can put the sheep to work to repair the damage 

 of years upon his exhausted lands. 



To encourage the raising of sheep the last Legislature 

 enacted a very wise law and one that will redound to the 

 welfare of the State. This law allows every farmer to own 

 fifty sheep exempt from execution for debt. It is unfortu- 

 nate that their ideas of the rights of property did not in- 

 fluence them to enact a law for the protection of flocks 

 against the ravages of roaming dogs. 



