SHEEP WORRYING.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 86, 24 October 1877, Page 3

SHEEP WORRYING.

The following remarks by an A merican writer are not without a local application s The dog nuisance U a vpry great one and ought to receive the serious attention of erery sensible mind. Every evil ought to have a cure, and if mild remedies fail, why not resort to those that cannot P. Po away with all the useless? curs and put upon all others a tax so heavy that none but very valuable animnis can be kept. Moreover, give a reward of ten ' dollars for thfi capture of every dog at large without an ownpr. This done sheep 1. <;ould remain on their pasture in safety, :r grass land would not become poor from losing the dung and urine in consequence of the sheep being away durine the night and every farmer would then acknowledge the expediency of sheep husbandry. There are gentlemen who are fine business characters, well meaning and good &t heart, but who. in spite of all this, set bad examples, and keep a number of dogs, which are of no use whatever, not even as watch dogs. For from their numbers •and the'.r constant barking in answer to «ach other, nobody heeds the noise. The poor people in each neighborhood, seeing the rich encouraging the multiplication of dogs, obtain some too. and thus whole own ships are infested and overran with ho canine race. Bfitfer far to destroy the ast shepherd dog than to have a country like the United States obliged to buy 60,000,000d01s worth of wool every ynar because the useless dogs prevent the growth of i' at home.