DOG MOST DANGEROUS AND WORTHLESS 

 OF ALL DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



How 50 Head of Sheep worth $1,000 were Destroyed in One 

 Night by Two Dogs 



Henry K. Reed of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, had 54 breed- 

 ing ewes worth J20 each. The night of February 8, 1917, two 

 dogs killed 50 of them and crippled the others. 



Fifty ewes, producers of food and clothing, the product 

 of years of skill and endeavor in breeding, the pride of a 

 good farmer, and the source of his income, totally de- 

 stroyed in one night by two worthless curs. 



(Photo from National .Sluckman and Farmer.) 



One Night's Work Of Two Dogs 



This story is but an incident in the history of the ravages of 

 dogs. Farmers in all parts of the United States have found in 

 their pastures dead, crippled, torn, bleeding, and frightened sheep, 

 the result of raids by dogs. Sheep confined for protection in 

 yards and houses have been raided and killed. Flocks have been 

 destroyed outright. Flocks have been chased and worried until 

 worthless. 



Men have been financially ruined, become discouraged and 



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