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uring villages that furnish us the best markets in the world 

 unfortunately furnish many dogs that enjoy an occasional 

 day's or night's outing, and within five miles of such a place 

 sheep must have some protection. On some farms sheep 

 may be pastured so near the farmhouse that at the sight of a 

 dog they will run for the yard. 



As the State pays a bounty of $10 for the killing of a dog 

 found worrying sheep, this plan adds rather than subtracts 

 from the profits of sheep keeping. There are thousands of 

 acres of land in Connecticut admirably adapted for sheep 

 pasture that can be bought at a low price. Such land usually 

 needs fencing, and at the present time a wire-netting fence is 

 more economical than a rail fence. Such a fence should be 

 high enough to keep in sheep and keep out dogs. No care- 

 ful observer doubts but that the time is near at hand when 

 thousands of acres of Connecticut land now lying idle will 

 again be pastured, and in the reclaiming of these pastures 

 there is no animal to be compared to the sheep. 



R. S. HlNMAN. 



OLD WOOLEN MILL Conn. Monthly. 



Of Gen. David Humphreys; built 1806, Seymour, formerly Humphreysville. 



