DOGS O R SHEEP? 87 



The dog problem is not solved by license. 



Licensing a dog, requiring the owner to buy a collar for him, 

 or to pay a heavy tax on him, does not keep the dog from kiUing 

 sheep or being a worthless cur. 



Require the dog owner to be responsible for the where- 

 abouts of his dog. 



Back this requirement with public sentiment and of- 

 ficers with backbone not of gristle, and sheep will come to 

 their own. 



A medium sized cow bell on every tenth sheep will help 

 to frighten dogs away and alarm the owner and neighbors. 

 Don't use little dinky sheep bells. They don't make enough 

 noise. USE COW BELLS. 



DOGS OR SHEEP— WHICH? 



By H. S. Mobley 



At the time when the woods and plains were inhabited by wild 

 animals, some useful as a source of food and clothing, and others 

 a menace to his safety, man found the dog a most useful and de- 

 pendable aid in the chase or as a sentinel and defender. Thus 

 originated a racial attachment that continues to the present. 



But these old time conditions are changed. Man now has re- 

 course to breeding and raising the domesticated animals, the cow, 

 the horse, the hog, the goat, and the sheep for a large part of his 

 meat, and clothing supply. Regarding this combination the dog 

 has reversed his former position until now so far as sheep and 

 goats are concerned, he has become a menace and disadvantage 

 where he was formerly a most efficient helper. His value now is 

 almost wholly sentimental on account of his past service. 



The question to be decided now is, does his past services as a 

 helper, give him sufficient value to justify his ravages of the flocks 

 of sheep and goats which now are so necessary to man as a source 

 of food and clothing.^ 



The irresistible conclusion is that since the sheep and the goat 

 are producers of food and clothing, and the dog produces nothing, 

 but is a consumer of and a destroyer of one of the most important 

 food resources, man must deny his sentimental appreciation of the 

 doo- in favor of his more pressing need of meat and clothing and 

 substitute the sheep and the goat for the dog. 



