CHAPTER XXXI. 

 THE DOG IS ITS OOMEOTIOl WITH SHEEP. 



THE IlfJUKIBS IirPLICTED BT DOGS ON SHEEP -^ THE SHEEP 



DOG^THE SPANISH SHEEP DOG THE HUSSTGAKIAN SHEEP 



DOG THE rRBNCH SHEEP DOG — r THE MEXICAN SHEEP 



DOG THE SOUTH AMEKICAN SHEEP DOG OTHEK XAKGE 



EACES OF SHEEP DOGS THE ENGLISH SHEEP DOG THE 



SCOTCH SHBEF DOG, OE 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 that the 

 balance is enormously against him. 



The Injueibs 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, 

 (N'ew York,) but I found them already prepared to my hand 

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

 weU for the purposes of illustration — over the signature of 

 the able and efficient Correspohdiilg Seci'etary 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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