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and it is fairly cheap. Now, you can fence a sheep pasture 

 somewhere on your farm and be reasonably secure against dogs. 

 I should still keep the shotgun as a safety precaution in con- 

 nection with it. So I say that the question presents itself to 

 me from both sides. I don't believe the danger from dogs is a 

 valid excuse against sheep-keeping for any man who really 

 wants to keep sheep. On the other hand, I don't believe the 

 dog is entitled to the privileges he has, and if I was keeping 

 sheep I would shoot every dog I found on my premises, no 

 matter where he came from. 



Mr. Faunce. I come from the territory first occupied by 

 the settlers here. I own lands that were plowed and planted 

 by those early settlers. When they came here there were no 

 cattle. There was great anxiety among them to get cattle 

 here, to increase the number. The facilities for bringing them 

 across the ocean were very slender. In the early days, as you 

 know, the vessels in which they came had not the accommo- 

 dations that now exist. Dr. Fuller, among the earliest settlers, 

 was very anxious, among the rest, to increase the number of 

 cattle. The cattle then were largely of the little black variety. 

 I think I saw one of the descendants out at the Agricultural 

 Farm a year or two ago. Dr. Fuller probably made the first 

 will that ever was on record, and — • I state this simply to 

 illustrate the anxiety and his desire — • he says in his will, 

 "I give to the First Church in Plymouth my black heifer on 

 condition that they shall raise all her heifer calves." At the 

 same time he says, "That which Roger Williams doth owe me 

 for physic I do freely forgive him." That shows, you see, the 

 desire for the cattle was above any monetary interest. Now, 

 they were anxious to increase the cattle, and we ought to be as 

 anxious to increase them. The question is, how; and I have 

 not learned anything to-day that will show me how it can be 

 done; whether they can do as I have done, — substitute the 

 oxen upon our farms instead of the horses, — and in that way 

 increase the cattle. I am not sure whether it can be done or 

 not successfully; at any rate, that is my project at the present 

 tim.e. 



Question. Do I understand that you advocate raising all 



