CHAPTER XVIII 



PROTECTING SHEEP FROM DOGS AND 

 WOLVES 



The discussions in Chapter XVIII are as follows: (i) 

 How dogs and wolves affect sheep husbandry ; (2) How 

 dogs worry sheep; (3) Protection to sheep owners from 

 legislatures; (4) Remedial legislation; (5) Protective 

 measures on the farm ; (6) Why sheep do better when not 

 corralled ; (7) The dog industry in the United States ; 

 (8) The place for the dog in sheep husbandry ; (9) The 

 losses incurred by wolves; and (10) Protective measures 

 against wolves. 



How dogs and wolves affect sheep husbandry It is 

 not possible to state with precision the annual loss to 

 sheep husbandry from the ravages of wolves and dogs. 

 Statistics relating to these losses have not been compiled 

 in a systematic way, and for the reason probably that the 

 task of compiling them would not be an easy one. That 

 these losses in the aggregate are very great is unques- 

 tionably true. In the special report of the sheep indus- 

 try of the United ^States published by the United States 

 department of agriculture in 1892, it is stated that the 

 loss from dogs alone in Ohio was placed at $152,034 and 

 in Missouri at $200,000. In Bulletin No. 20 of the biolog- 

 ical survey of the United States department of agricul- 

 ture, it is stated that the average animal loss from wolves 

 reported from several of the range states has been 5 per 

 cent, and that in some areas the losses incurred by wolves 

 and other wild animals, chiefly the former, has been as 

 much as 20 per cent. It would seem correct to say that 

 the loss incurred from these two sources is greater than 

 the loss resulting from disease. 



