1912. 
1036 
TWO SIDES OF THE DOG. 
“The Friend of Man.’* 
It was with great pleasure that I read 
the Hope Farm man's article, “The Dog,” 
on page 554. Two years since, we lost our 
dog, and after reading considerable about 
Airedales, concluded to buy one. He was 
12 weeks old when he came to us, and is 
now two years of age; and if there is 
anything going on about the place which 
he does not know about and understand, 
either day or night, I do not know what 
it is; he thoroughly understands that w 5 
do not want any fighting going on, and 
when another dog makes a pass at him, he 
will run as for his life, and in this way 
acquired a reputation for cowardice, but Tie 
has lived it down. Four times during his 
lifetime, four different dogs have caught 
hold of him and held on for a period of 
about 15 seconds while he was trying to 
get away; then be, in each case, ceased 
trying to get away, and the other dog 
tried it. and four times it has been neces¬ 
sary to take him by the throat and bold on 
firmly until the other different dogs could 
do the getting away. We have been called 
upon to perform the service for the same 
dog but once. He loves children and 
horses, never roams away from the house 
unless in company with my wife or self, 
has a memory that is astonishing, and a 
very deep-seated desire to please, and when 
AN AIREDALE TERRIER. 
rebuked for any act once, appears heart¬ 
broken until assured that all is forgiven. I 
do not believe he knows the meaning of 
fear, but he is not foolhardy; as the 
Kennel Review puts it, “He is a cautious 
cuss.” Have you noticed what a natural 
waterside dog they are? All honor to the 
Airedale. Allow me to introduce Colonel 
Clipdale, A. IC. C. 49003. 
North Carolina. w. w. shay. 
“An Enemy of Society.” 
I am sorry to observe the nope Farm 
man advocate the keeping of dogs. A 
paragraph in another part of the same 
issue in which he so eloquently argues the 
excellent qualities of canines, states that 
sheep are no longer kept in Connecticut on 
account of the ravages of dogs. The same 
condition can be found in all thickly set¬ 
tled regions. In a radius of 15 miles of 
Rochester, N. Y., there are practically no 
sheep for the same reason. Even in the 
hills of Wyoming, Steuben and the more 
southern of the counties of this State, the 
occasional attacks of dogs make sheep 
raising precarious, and deter many from 
the attempt where land and pasture are 
cheap and conditions other than the dog 
question would encourage farmers to raise 
sheep. 
Did the Hope Farm man ever see a flock 
of sheep immediately after an attack by 
dogs? A more pitiful sight cannot be 
found among the animals. It is simply hor¬ 
rible, and cannot be described. Hope Farm 
man will probably say as all dog owners 
do that his dogs do not attack sheep, nor 
would even if they were very hungry. How 
does he know they would not? Even if he 
does positively know they would not, he is 
urging others to keep dogs, and how can 
he know what the other fellows’ dogs will 
or will not do? 
But worse than that, the dogs are dan¬ 
gerous to human beings, and especially to 
children. Instead of being good compan¬ 
ions I believe it is degrading to children 
to have dogs s about. If the dog remains 
gentle the child is apt to become a tyrant. 
It cultivates in the child the domineering 
quality. I will grant that most dogs will 
not bite, and never inflict any direct injury 
on the child, but it cannot be known when 
they may do so. Thousands are severely 
bitten every year, many actually killed. 
Most of the victims are children, for dogs 
are, like all animals, essential cowards, and 
only attack what they believe cannot re¬ 
sist. Most of the children are bitten by 
the family pet. The dog usually comes to 
the house a puppy when the child also is 
young. While the dog is young he is play¬ 
ful and kind. But as both grow the dog 
matures sooner, and if he has any bad dis¬ 
position it crops out sometimes in the most 
sudden and unexpected manner. The child 
gets stronger and mauls his canine friend 
more severely until the time may come 
when the latter resents what he formerly 
took in good part. I think most of us 
can recall instances of that sort among 
our own acquaintance. The risk is too 
great to be needlessly taken. The child 
Is too valuable. Hope Farm man risks the 
dearest thing in this world without pros¬ 
pect of gain other than the simple pleasure 
of the child, which could be as well served 
in some other way. It ought not to be 
necessary to refer to hydrophobia. How 
anyone can deliberately expose his children 
to the horrors of that fearful disease is be¬ 
yond my comprehension. W. L. 
New York. 
THE RURAh NEW-YORKER 
AN ARGUMENT FOR ANGORA GOATS. 
“With a start of but 13 goats, and 60 
acres of brush and land which cost me only 
$500, five years ago, without appreciable ef¬ 
fort on my part, I now have to my credit 
$2,000, and have paid for the little farm, 
all labor, and interest on investment. That 
is what goats did for me. That is not all 
the story, I have also made a nice little 
sum on sheep which I kept on the farm.” 
These were the remarks of Dr. George 
Lewis of Ashtabula County, Ohio. “Goats 
pay, and more farmers should have flocks. 
They increased the value of my little prop¬ 
erty about $300 a year just by trimming 
down the brush and girdling the trees. 
They are profit producers for wild land. 
There are thousands of acres of land in 
Ohio, and other Eastern States, which 
should be rid of briars and small brush, 
and the goat is the animal that will do the 
work and return a nice profit. It does not 
require fencing other than what will take 
care of sheep. Goats will work under a 
fence the same as sheep. If there are 
stumps near the fence they might mount 
these and jump over the enclosure, or will 
walk up leaning trees, but the idea that 
they will climb a barbed wire fence is a 
fallacy. I use a 40-inch woven wire fence 
with a barbed wire on top. 
“Goats seem to do better on browse, al¬ 
though they produce finer wool on pasture. 
I kept my goats three years without feed¬ 
ing them much. The twigs and briars were 
sufficient for their Winter supply of food, 
and I had a barn so they could run out 
and in at will. Besides taking care of 
small brush, they will girdle all smooth 
bark trees. They rub the bark loose with 
their horns, and then tear it away with 
their teeth, and get in their work as high 
as they can reach, standing on their hind 
legs. A number of trees were killed in 
this way in my lot; some were about a foot 
thick. This past Winter was an excep¬ 
tionally hard one, and I spent about $35 
for feed for 50 animals. I consider the 
goat three times the profit producer that 
a sheep is, and the two can be worked 
well together. I gave my flock no personal 
attention, and as result the profits have 
been greatly reduced. I lost more than 40 
kids because I was injudicious about 
leaving my buck in with the flock. The 
goat has her young in litters about five 
months apart, but my experience would 
suggest that the young should come in 
May and June, and at this time it will 
be unnecessary to care for the little ones. 
To do this, the buck should be turned with 
the flock five months earlier. I would 
advise only one mating a year, although 
I have had one mother bring forth and 
raise four kids in a season. 
“The wool brings a good price. I have 
had one animal shear $8 worth. It might 
be of some interest to know that the 
world’s champion pair sheared $273 worth 
at one time. My wool has brought me 
from 34 to 49 cents a pound, and the wool 
is graded according to length ; eight, 10, 
12 and 14 inch lengths bring prices rang¬ 
ing from $2 to $5 per pound, depending on 
the length, and there is a good demand 
for the - long wool. Wool of considerable 
length cannot be grown until the browse 
is nibbled down by the goats, as briars 
catch in the wool and pull it out. The 
wool is used in switches and wigs for 
lodges, and some of the finer grades are 
used in imitation of human hair. 
“Another interesting feature regarding 
goats is the fact that they keep dogs 
away from sheep. Every farmer should 
have at least one to every 40 or 50 sheep. 
A goat will whip out a dog, and very fre¬ 
quently will kill a dog. The sheep learn 
to huddle around a goat in case of attack 
by dogs. There is a good market for goat 
meat. The East has not yet acquired the 
taste for it to any appreciable extent, but 
when the love of it is once acquired, there 
is no other meat that will take its place. 
It is tender, juicy and savory. We have an 
association with storehouses for our wool 
in Silver City. New Mexico, and one in 
Boston : this insures our getting the best 
prices for our wool. My wool last year 
brought me about $260, and I still have 
on hand my shearing for the past Spring. 
The goat is a profit producer lor the 
farmer who has waste land, for it brings 
him in a good revenue, and at the same 
time it does the work of cleaning up the 
land more effectively than a force of men 
with axes, brush hooks and saws can do, 
and that without expense.” w. J. 
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