1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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that he was actually learning to be helpful. 

 When his master patted him on the head, 

 and called him a good dog because he was 

 really helping, his enthusiasm and delight 

 knew no bounds. He would look at the 

 sheep, then look up into his master's face 

 and listen to his voice, and you could almost 

 hear the puppy say, by actions if not by 

 words, "Oh, yes I now I see. Now I under- 

 stand what yon are trying to do." He was 

 so delighted with the work that, when the 

 sheep were in their pen at their destination, 

 he wanted to be of some use still. 



We left the horse and buggy, and prepar- 

 ed to make some visits around town. Friend 

 Peck said, "Now, I can not have that dog 

 along evei'ywhere we go, so I will put him 

 in the seat to watch the buggy, and chain 

 him fast so he can not get away." Before 

 we got out of sight, however, the dog was 

 hanging by his collar over the back end of 



the buggy. He had hopped out to go with 

 the crowd, and had not calculated on the 

 chain. While hanging by the neck he could 

 not very well bark or yelp, so he was in a 

 perilous fix for sure. After this I shall always 

 feel an affection for shepherd dogs that I 

 never had before. 



Now about the sheep. Friend Peck con- 

 fided to me that he had not expected very 

 much over $100 for that little bunch of sheep; 

 but when the check amounted to something 

 over $170 he declaimed he did not know of 

 any better way of making money in South 

 Dakota than raising sheep and lambs. By 

 the way, it is so expensive moving bulky 

 freight to market in the South Dakota regions 

 that hay is often sold at a dollar a ton, and 

 sometimes it will not even bring that. Now 

 do you see why it is a good business rais- 

 ing sheep and cattle in that locality when 

 prices are as good as they are now ? 



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