Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-22

SHEEP Docs &C. The attention of our readers
is called to article in present number rails
ing food for sheep. Who will make the experiment?
There will be time enough after this number comes
to hand We prefer sowing corn late for fodder.
fyou have no sheep, you have, no doubt, more cat
tie than you ought to keep for your own interests,
and the corn fodder and turnips will answer for them
fully as well for sheep; indeed, think better,
so far as the fodder is concerned. But, although
are much in favor of sheep raising, both source
of profit and important link in the chain of in
provement of our out lands, yet not
quite sure that doing full justice to sub
scrbers in encouraging them to enter into it to any
extent whilst State and the whole South is
with packs of ours, whelps and pups ofhigh and
low degree, and under the protection of orr laws.
The game of sheep raising is not worth a candle
while our legislators too much afraid of their
popularity with the "dear people" to enact laws for
the suppression of the dog nuisance to all good society
If We had law allowing one dog each farm to be
kept free of tax but all one, tax of say 25
so cents for the first, and doubling every
that, with additional clause taxing each white
man or woman for allowing a Negro to keep dog
not less than five dollars for each so kept, it
would, feel quite certain, in very short time
reduce population at least 500 per cent. and in
crease the number ofshcep in as great atro. AS to
the fear of the people, don't, believe word oft
We should not be fraid go before the people with
all our preiudices against the canine If there
no other objections to should not fear
success We know there are many gentlemen in the
State that are greatly attached to their packs of
hounds. Such men would however be found we
venture, almost to man, in favor the law. They
would most cheerfuly pay the tax, in order to have
the thousand of useless prowling ours destroyed.
Even poor men would prefer paying tax
two good, to having the country overrun with
worthless As to Negroes being allowed to raise
and keep dogs by their owners, we consider it an
outage on every decent community. The man that
suffers it is certainly-and oftentimcs, no doubt,
without refection-too regardless of his own and
of his neighbours interest. If instead of allowing
his negro to raise dog he would give him a pig
to raise, it would cost him more, and very prob
ably much less What negro would feed to dog
for whoever saw a poor negroes dog-would raise
pig yearly, which, in the family of the negro would
be clear saving to the Besides we know
that in our own ne;ghborhood negroes keep dogs
with them in all their night prowling, in. order to
warn them in their roguerics well to protect
them from the patrol. We know instance that
occurred few days since, in which the dog protected
a negro from patrol that pursued and overlook
him, and enabled the negro to make his escape.
Upon the whole, it must come to this at last-we
must make our election between the dog and the
sheep. We must agree to the reduction Of large
majority of our dog population, or we must content
ourselves with the abandonment of sheep raising.
Who will vote for the dog? and who for the sheep?
PendLetOn Farmer and Planter.
Nothing is further than earth from heaven moth
ing is nearer than heaven to earth.