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Show The Wheat Interest, Editors Herald: Feeling much indebted io W. H. L. for to-day's communication on "Grasshoppers," "Grass-hoppers," I should likoto draw him out frate-ually in tho bunds of the brotherhood of agriculturists, on the really momeulous question of the practical utility of tbo law of the territory ter-ritory requiring stock owners to fouce their pastures or to herd their animals. ani-mals. The general drift and purport of that law is all I know about it, but ila bsariug on my owu immednito iu-terests iu-terests would be Been to be important to a poor man, when I say that il executed ex-ecuted the law would be a saving of five hundred dollars to tna annually. Would it injure my neighbors to the same extent that it would bent-fit me? Would it really injure ilium at all? For I mm ready to admit and apply the golden rule of reciprocity be-tween. be-tween. my neighbors and myself "Do unto others as you would they should do unto you." 1 see that tho question is a broad one, requiring an examination and summing up oj the wide results of the law as put in operation oper-ation in Europe and in our old stales as well as careful reasoning from what might be called the nature ol the case. Looking at the question superficially su-perficially and on tne whole I am inclined to think that it would be for the general advantage of all classes of graziers to have enclosed en-closed pastures, with plenty of good feod from cultivated grasses for milch cows, working animals and even .yuunj growing stocx. ine common range or prairie pastures are really only a poor makeshift for stock, oileu precarious and seldom good at the best. Hence if the operation of the law of the territory will be an ultimata good for the graziers, and is very certain cer-tain to be an advantage to thu plowman, plow-man, the conclusion is obvieus. But I, for one, would be glad if your intelligent in-telligent correspondent "W. H. L." will discuss tbo question more fully. June 13tb. Peace. |
