140 



7 hogs and pigs killed, $ 32.00 



2 guinea pigs killed, 2.00 



1 goat killed, 5.00 



1746 fowls, (hens, turkeys, ducks and geese) killed, 1641.30 



Cost of appraising all, 428.40 



$4,215.53 



Number of dogs licensed, 12,701 



Number of dogs killed, 951 



Total accounted for, 13,652 



For every 10 dogs licensed there is 1 female. 



Amount received for licenses, $25,826.80 



Amount paid for damages, 4,215.53 



Amount returned to town and cities, $21,611.27 



In the general discussion the general tenor of the remarks 

 sympathized with the opening, although exceptions were taken 

 by Mr. Gregory and others, to the killing at sight, unless the 

 dog was attacking domestic animals. Many instances were 

 told, showing the faithfulness of dogs, no law could be expected 

 to kill them out, but one can be looked for to restrain them. 



Mr. Gregoiy thought that the danger from hydrophobia is far 

 less than that of being struck by lightning. Mr. King thought 

 that 100 persons were saved by dogs where one died of hydro- 

 phobia. Mr. Ware believed that for every fowl or animal 

 killed, for which damage was recovered, there were five more 

 killed that were not paid for, he also spoke of the damage done 

 by hunting dogs in tracking little birds through onion beds and 

 other growing crops ; such dogs are not needed in Essex County 

 where there is so little game. Rev. Mr. McGregor, of Methuen, 

 spoke of the value of the shepherd dogs of Scotland, and their 

 intelligence, and his knowledge of dogs in Newfoundland, where 

 they are almost indispensable as beasts of burden, and of the 

 mongrel and unowned dogs of Damascus, seen by him, which 

 act as scavengers in precincts of their own appointment, and 

 woe betide the dog which trespasses beyond its own territory. 

 The speaker believed the fault to be in the training of the dogs 

 rather than with the animals themselves. 



