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the Courts compels the owner of sheep destroyed by dogs to go for, say often, into 

 «ome other township, and in some cases into a different county from that in which 

 his sheep were killed, thus making the dog-tax collector, in one county or township, 

 perform duties in another, and then making the sheep owner liable to fine and im- 

 prisonment for shooting the worthless cur that loiters about liis yards and fields, 

 and feeds on his slaughtered flocks, because he lacks the proof that he is a sheep- 

 killing dog. 



The subject of fisli culture is beginning to attract from our farmers a share of 

 the attention its importance demands. Located as our county is, on the summit or 

 highest land between the two lakes, Erie and Michigan, there are within its 

 boundaries over seventy-five lakes and ponds of clear, beautiful, soft water, most 

 of them bordered by sandy and gravelly banks, many of them flowing in clear, 

 pebbly brooks from one lake into another. 



These lakes and ponds vary in extent from one quarter to six miles, with ever 

 varying widths and depths; are supplied by springs, affording to the agriculturist 

 an abundant supply of pure water during the greatest droughts. These bodies of 

 water abound with great quantities of excellent fish, the pickerel or pike, black 

 bass, perch, speckled bass, red eye bass, blue gills, sunfish, sucker or lump fish, 

 herring, catfish. Whitefish, German carp and eels are successfully propagated. 

 The laws for the protection of fish are rigidly enforced by those interested, and 

 they hope by care and attention in the near future to have access to a great variety 

 of excellent fish, to say nothing of the sport and pleasant pastime in securing them. 



At the urgent request of our many farmers interested in fish culture, there is 

 herewith appended a very correct map of Steuben county, representing the town- 

 ships, section lines, the lakes and ponds, with their names, and the streams form- 

 ing their connections, the names of our villages and the course of the P'ort Wayne 

 branch of the Lake Shore railroad, which will give to parties interested a better 

 representation of the location and comparative size of our lakes than can other- 

 wise be given. If the same can be published in your forthcoming Agricultural 

 Report a cut of the same will be furnished by the undersigned. 



A. W. Hendry, 



President. 



We take pleasure in producing the fol lowing map of Steubeu 

 ■county, in the extreme northeast portion of the State, and will, 

 no doubt, prove of much interest in showing the remarkable 

 lake surface of that portion of the State. In no other w^ay can 

 the geography of a county be so well described, and we hope 

 that this will lead to a map of each county in the future agri- 

 ■cultural reports, although in a more condensed form. 



Secret A KY. 



