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THE RURAL N E W-YOKKEK 
May 2, 
TWO SIDES OF THE DOG. 
“ Dog Haters and Dog Lovers.” 
Tiie R. N.-Y. is certainly a success as 
an “Artful Dodger” on the dog question. 
I suppose the distiller and the saloon¬ 
keeper might speak on the liquor ques¬ 
tion as you do on the dog. “There seems 
to be no way of reconciling the liquor 
lovers and the liquor haters and bringing 
them into any fair compromise. It is a 
tight to the death on the part of the 
liquor haters, and a defensive tight on 
the part of the liquor lovers. We should 
say that the latter are gaining ground, 
as liquor is made more carefully and the 
business has been brought under greater 
system.” 
If the whiskey men said any such 
thing, would you consider they had made 
any sort of reply, or in any sense closed 
the discussion? Yet they would have 
been stating facts as you did in similar 
remarks on the dog. I deny too that I 
at least am a dog hater. I do not hate 
dogs; in fact I would like to keep one, 
did I not believe by so doing I would 
be setting a bad example and encouraging 
a practice I think at once a source of 
danger and financial loss. I “hate,” if 
you please, the dog habit. If you as a 
dog lover believe in the practice, why not 
say so and explain why you recommend, 
by indirection at least, the keeping of 
dogs by farmers? Tell us why there is 
any offset to tin* loss of millions annual¬ 
ly in sheep killed by dogs—where there 
is any to the danger to human life and 
safety? What can yon set against the 
death by hydrophobia of at least one 
human being every week on the average 
in the United States? What pays for 
the practical abandonment of sheep grow¬ 
ing in all States east of the Mississippi 
because of the menace to flocks by dogs? 
I am ready to admit and even to main¬ 
tain there are some dogs which return a 
pr.ofit to their owners, and there are also 
many others which while not financially 
profitable are yet so faithful and good in 
temper as to make “their company 
equivalent to their board.” It is the 
average I am discussing, and we all 
know there are few dogs that will not 
worry sheep if they have a chance. The 
facts are that sheep cannot be kept on 
account of dogs, and if The R. N.-Y. 
thinks that a desirable state of affairs 
for the country in general and farmers in 
particular please tell us why. 
Those “dog lovers” who believe their 
chickens and other goods safe because 
they own dogs would do well to read ac¬ 
counts of the raids of robbers on some 
of the houses of wealthy suburbanites 
on Long Island, which took place in Feb¬ 
ruary. The thieves stole, not only what 
they could find loose hut took some 25 
dogs, fancy Airedales, Boston terriers, 
English bulls, etc. Enough said as to 
the “protection” afforded by ugly dogs. 
I think The R. N.-Y t . the best paper 
of its class in America, and one of the 
best of any class, but no human institu¬ 
tion is perfect, and I think I detect a 
little bias here on the dog question. I 
admit I am biased, and think I have rea¬ 
sons to be. • W. A. LANDERS. 
New York. 
He Saved My Life. 
* I wish you would print the experience 
I had with a dog. I am the owner of an 
Airedale, which my father brought home 
last March, and I would not part with 
him for anything. I went out eeling in 
my boat last April 27, and took along my 
shotgun and my faithful friend the Aire¬ 
dale. When I was about a mile and a 
half from the shore I wanted to anchor 
my boat and start eeling, when my gun 
which was lying on the sternsheet, ac¬ 
cidentally discharged and shattered my 
left leg so badly that it was impossible for 
me to walk. I managed to get the boat 
to the shore, but could not walk from 
the shore to the house which was almost 
half a mile from where I landed my boat. 
I yelled, but all in vain. I would have 
bled to death had not my dog barked and 
run to the house and jumped against my 
father when he came out to look what the 
dog was barking for, and after jumping 
up at him he started back to where I 
was and back to the house until he drew 
my father’s attention towards me. We 
only had the dog about a month before 
it happened. 
I fully agree that the Airedale is a 
most faithful and useful dog. I am also 
glad to hear that all people are not dog 
haters. I think that every home should 
have a dog. lie will protect the property 
as well as the majority of watchmen. 
How many criminals have been located 
by the police with the aid of a dog which 
otherwise would still be free from jail? 
How many rats, mink, weasels and other 
chicken thieves have been caught and 
destroyed by the dog? If it wasn’t for 
the dogs that clear away this vermin I 
think a good many of the people would 
have to sit up all night with a shotgun 
at their sliohulder. There would be con¬ 
siderably more poultry, stock and vegeta¬ 
bles stolen from the country people if it 
wasn’t for our faithful friend, the dog. 
As we have very poor police protection 
in most country places we are thankful 
to have a dog. E. E. s. 
Staten Island. 
Where Dogs Pay. 
Like others the above subject has more 
than one side. I am well aware that only 
a very few farmers make their canine 
stock pay them anything, but that is 
partly the farmer’s fault. Here on our 
farm our pair of collies pay all the farm 
taxes and the interest on the mortgage 
besides. In addition to that they are 
always willing to put the chickens out 
of the front yard, help drive the other 
farm stock or do anything else that a 
farm dog should do. They have saved 
our poultry from two and four-legged j 
“varmints” several times. There is such | 
a demand for pups that we expect soon j 
to increase our “best paying farm stock.” ! 
Don’t despise the toell bred farm dog till j 
you stop and think a bit about what he j 
will earn you if given the chance. A 
Prussian who lives not far away and who 
raises prize Du roc Jersey hogs and col¬ 
lies, says that he can make more out of a 
female collie in a year than he can out 
of one of his fine sows. j. h. tubbs. 
Nebraska. 
THE UNDERGROUND SILO. 
I should be glad to know if any of the 
readers of The It. N.-Y. have ever tried 
an underground silo, or if there is any 
valid objection to them? Silos are al¬ 
most unknown in this Province yet, and 
I should imagine an outside silo would 
he liable to freeze in this climate. The 
conditions here are ideal for the construc¬ 
tion of underground concrete silos. Ex¬ 
cavation can be made to any depth with 
no danger of caving, and water would 
rarely give any trouble. J. H. 
Whitewater, Manitoba. 
We have had some little discussion of 
these pit or underground silos. The con¬ 
clusion seems to be that they prove sat¬ 
isfactory on dry, well-drained or sandy j 
land, but they are not satisfactory on 
wet land where the water level is high. 
They are dug out something like a well, 
preferably square, and are lined on the 
inside with brick, stone, or cement, or in 
some case they are built like an under¬ 
ground icehouse with two walls, and air 
space between. The corn is cut in the 
same as for any other silo, and packed 
down solidly. Most of them are built 
two feet or more above ground, and a 
little house or shelter is built over them. 
The Nebraska Experiment Station at 
Lincoln has printed a little pamphlet de¬ 
scribing these silos, which you might well 
study. In some parts of the West where 
(he soil is naturally dry, the cost of build- j 
ing material is high, and the winds cold 
and strong, these pit silos are very satis¬ 
factory. 
Experiments With Pigs. —Farmers 
who are interested in fattening hogs 
should read Bulletin No. 175 of the Ken¬ 
tucky Experiment Station at Lexington. 
This gives the results of various experi¬ 
ments in growing and fattening hogs, 
both in the dry lot and also upon for¬ 
age crops. While, of course, the methods 
employed are in a way peculiar to the 
South Central West, still any farmer, 
and particularly those who wish to keep 
hogs at pasture, can learn much from 
this bulletin. The notes on feeding the 
sow while she is nursing her pigs are 
very good. Among other things we are 
told of the following remedy or treatment 
for pigs that are infected with worms. 
The following mixture is a dose for a 
100-pound pig: Santonin, 2*4 grains; 
areca nut, one dram ; calomel, one grain ; 
sodium bicarbonate, one dram. Pigs are 
starved for 12 hours previous to giving 
the remedy, the medicine being thorough¬ 
ly stirred in a small amount of ground 
feed, and repeated in 10 days. 
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