Show HOW DOG LOVERS CAN SAVE SHEEP L owners of canines can aid by supporting fair state laws regulating menace BIG HINDRANCE TO INDUSTRY most moat serious loss lose Is fact that farmers are arc kept from engaging in sheep dullness dog proof i fences described thousands of sheep are arc ruthlessly h killed every year by loss dogs the monetary loss of mure more than it million dollars it 11 year to sheep owners owner doca not cover tile lie most serious aspect of the damage rhe fact that tile the ilog dog menace keeps yany farmers from elig nging in the lie dileep bus business liless even evell fit at this q thile glnn there tire urgent demands for more kvool aai allent Is the he most serious I 1 result which holcli anny be attributed attil buted to cheep killing logs specialists ot tilt the united states of 0 turo are urging lent sante tion alti us ns one of the best ways idys to beal lilt tile lie sheep killing problem log fog fences ulso nie anre described and advocated in ili a recent publication of the department of agriculture dealing with etli tills subject tile alie kill ing dog farmers rn hindrance to industry i that flint dogs iloni me ire a reul real hindrance to lie be she p industry Is ot only bel claimed by the testimony ot of thousands of sheep owners but la ili ve rIfled liy by 3 actual an in by the united states lie ile liar truent or ct agriculture am sheep owners in ili 15 states slates enst east of 0 the blocky mount Alls blows that out of if a total of sheep in the alie counties reporting 3 were viera killed by dok in one 1013 1911 and paid for by tit alie L counties at the sanio same rate of loss losa in other farm states the total annual de of sheep by dors dogs would donld be head hut but these figures fire atre based only the flur riber actually paid for find of ill the united stoles states department of agriculture say I 1 it t it 14 allore than probable that tle tile tru true e losses fur far exceed lili it Is known that allany sheep fire killed which nry never reported to the county sheep killing bogn work ork both singly inid allot in ili kobia Ko uia but in ti liv ns is or threes they ili d riot not limit their at to tile the or of tile the vic alty in willell they are lert kept but trine travel fr allies in nil bit direct directions spreading dpn adang destruction in the flocks will which they come in contact lie he cause their work Is so often lone done under cover er of darkness it Is almost impossible elble to chlech them in the net act of sheep miceli hence they can call seldom iw ile positively identified the ways in which different logs dogs littrick and destroy sheep vary ary greatly Krent ly some logs does simply kill 1111 one or two ir in a hock flock while others continue to attlee until nil tile scheep fire arc either cither destroy pol or crippled in ninny many cows where urge numbers are killed they nrc are neither bitten nor v wounded ol laded but simply aln biily closed until they tile V tile die from exhaustion aher after in 11 log dor lins 1114 once formed n habit of killing sheep li cp it it mallit wl with tit him illila anti and lie 1 Is seldom if t ever broken of 0 it lie he not only destroys sheep himself but leado other dogs doga to tile work no be given much buch dogs doga they should be killed is as soon as their habits are known rehabilitating industry tile desirability of 1 1 maximum increase in tin tilt number dumber ot sheep Is generally annl steps now flow being thuen toward a rehabilitation of the sheep industry but it it la recognized that one of the most effective means of insuring the former it on li iq tc aci make and enforce lawa which adequately protect the HIP farmers lock flock but in most of tile states mates the liris dos dog alivs jail all in their pose |