Show SHEEP OR STOCK AT LARGE A correspondent propound these three questions and sake asks that they be answered through the columns of the 1 if there were no benefits to be derived from sheep or stock should they not be declared a nuisance running at lagel large 2 Is it right and just for the owners of animals to turn them hem loose in or around our fields fielda ft should hould they not be required to fence their own land if they wish to turn their animals out X I 1 not necessarily many human as an well as a uther other breeds that are running at large are of no benefit to anybody mad and yet jet they may scarcely acar oely be dec declared a red a nuisance as aa that term Is usually understood there are natural and inherent rights of life and liberty which even a worm may not be deprived ot of without good cause if hour our correspondent considers it flippant to answer him in this way we shall have to rejoin that his question is not a fair one there are bene flip many and great incalculable and indispensable to be derived from sheep and stock 2 it is le certainly not right for the owners of animals to turn them loose in another man mans as field without h bis Is consent and to lis injury to turn lurn them tb cm loose around another mans field may not in the abstract be called wrongful we cannot see for instance there is anything very wrong in such euch proceeding it if he anil and others like bian who may object to it are not in aured sheep and stock must live and move somewhere and ana under the best of circumstances they are at times bound to be loose nearly or remotely around somebody a field 8 3 As to whether sheep and stock owners sauld be required to fence their land to keep their animals irv IP or farmers should be required to fence their fields to keep the animals out we prefer to express no absolute opinion because circumstances and differ greatly siad a rule that might be right and whole some in one locality would perhaps be absurd and it ii jurious in another we know very well which would be the aas er or of the two plans if that were the only question to 10 be considered but ease is not always justice nor to is difficulty always a sign of evil in thickly settled sections the many who own and cultivate land should be pro tooted against sheep and stock running at large in sparsely settled regions where there are only two or three farto far owners in in perhaps a whole county lyof of grazing land it would be ridiculous to compel the owners of flocks and heads to fence in the lands on which their an animals I 1 mals browsed each community seems to have the th power to regulate this matter to the datis satisfaction faction of the majority and in accordance cor dance with its own notion of right and propriety if ft it we are in favor of such power being conferred further than that we are hardly willing to go we cannot through a newspaper article decide oft off band the question at which our correspondent seems to be aiming and we shall not try |