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actual animals destroyed and injured. Figures col- 

 lected from county and town records in 1913 indi- 

 cated that at least 1500 sheep had been killed by dogs 

 and paid for by the towns in that year. It is more 

 accurately estimated at six times that number of 

 animals, counting the animals unreported and the 

 ultimate loss in vigor, from attacks, so that the true 

 figures should be 9000 sheep, not to mention the far 



V- n IOOT = 2.600\ 



I DOT = 2.600 ^v^^;;^ (£:>^ 



Fig. 31. Maps bhowing a. nirmber and distribution of 

 sheep; b. swine in 1910. 



greater damage to the flock from fatigue and fright. 

 Provision is now made in the State law for compensa- 

 tion covering this latter type of damage to the flock. 

 The larger demand for mutton and wool, and the 

 failure of competing regions to develop in proportion 

 to that demand, have led to an increase in the price 

 both of mutton and wool that is rapidly changing 

 conditions in favor of sheep-raising in New York, 

 wherever the cow does not fit the system of farm 

 management or the markets. 



So far as farm conditions alone are concerned, New 

 York has much land that is especially suited to the 



