CHAPTER XXXI. 



THE DOG m ITS OOMTEOTIOir WITH SHEEP. 



THE INJITEIES INTLICTED BT DOGS ON SHEEP THE SHEEP 



DOG THE SPANISH SHEEP DOG THE HUNGAEIAN SHEEP 



DOG THE FRENCH SHEEP DOG THE MEXICAN SHEEP 



DOG THE SOUTH AMERICAN SHEEP DOG OTHER lAEGE 



RACES OF SHEEP DOGS THE ENGLISH SHEEP DOG THE 



SCOTCH SHEEP DOG, OR COLLET — ACCUSTOMING SHEEP TO 

 DOGS. 



The Dog is justly a favorite animal with man, and I 

 cannot deny that I have written some prose heroics in his 

 praise.* But on the whole, on summing, up the advantages 

 and disadvantages which he produces to mankind — and 

 especially to sheep growers — there can be no doubt th'at the 

 balance >is enormously against him. 



The Injuries Inflicted bt Dogs on Sheep. -^^ I had 

 purposed to collect some statistics of the annual injuries 

 inflicted on sheep by dogs in the State of my residence, 

 (New York,) but I found them already preparied to my hand 

 in reference to the State of Ohio — which will answer equally 

 well for the purposes of illustration — over the' signature of 

 the able and efficient Corresponding Secretary of the Ohio 

 State Board of Agriculture, John H. Klippart, Esq. I need 

 not say that his name is an ample guaranty of the accuracy of 

 his statements. I cut the paper from a recent number of the 

 Ohio Farmer. Mr. Klippart says : 



"In 1858, the Legislature of Ohio enacted a law making 

 it the duty of the Township Assessors to return a list of the 

 sheep killed and wounded by dOgs, in every township in the 

 State. From the annual returns we are now obtaining data 

 from which to estimate the amount of damage done by dogs 



* In Sheep Husbandry in the South. 

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