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Show DOGS AS BOYS' PETS REPLACED BY SHFEP Each Canine. Causes Loss of $36.50 Every Year. Farm-Demonstration Agent in Kentucky Ken-tucky Itemizes Proposition on Blackboard of Mountain School House. tj 1 (Prepared by the United States Depart" ment of Agriculture.) For every dog kept a loss of $36.50 must be pocketed every year. For every sheep kept a profit of $27.60 may be pocketed every year. At least, that is the way the proposition propo-sition was itemized on the blackboard of a mountain schoolhouse by a farm-demonstration farm-demonstration agent in Kentucky. And the figures were convincing. There was not a sheep in the district at the time the figures were placed on the blackboard. Somebody said there used '-"'' to be one sheep a wether "down the mountain a ways," but the dogs ate him. A few weeks from the time the agent placed the figures on the board 15 boys each had contrived to buy a sheep. Eleven dogs had been killed. Several other families, pestered by their small sons, but still unwilling to kill their dogs, were trying to give the brutes away. Similar movements were started af other schools. Now, in that district, there are 622 boys who are members of the sheep club. Among them they own 2,065 fine sheep. By the tax returns, the dog population appears to have increased also, but the agent says this is not true. Formerly there was no sentiment for enforcement of the dog law, he says, but now there is a very strong sentiment that wsy, and, while there has been a considerable consider-able decrease In the number of dogs, there is an apparent increase, because people who formerly evaded the dog tax now have to pay it. |
