Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-02-17

apestion which affects the interests of svsrY indid
nal IN the ConfederacyI While the interests Of tho
country are thus triaed with, trade Is suspended
food is held 1.-The producing classes ne on
the verge of starvation fot provisions areah hold ~
famine prices, while Congress is shA debating In
not abandoned, wsnt-absoldte want-wiIl invade
our homes, and every hours delay Of Congressiona!
action will be marked by misery to thosands Of
helpless famil,es still worse by illegal attempts
10 procure that relief which is uselessly withheld
by Congressional squabbles or legislative
Register. ':7's: ~<'' ICE ..''',
For the Standard. -
Mr. EprroR Much has been said in reference
to the value Of sh ep stock, and the importance
of raising them. Ny experience for many years IN
raising that kind of stock is that it is by fax the
most profitable stock to the expense Of raising. and
that no farm should he without its flock of sheep
the number being in proportion to the size of the
farm; and that this is not the case more Or less,
am Of the opinion that i. is for the want ofproper
protection from the depredations committed on them
BY Dogs To prev ent their depredations is impossi
bic, without proper legislation for if talking would
do it, it would have been done long sgt But amidst
all the legislation and talking hitherto, the dogs are
q bad as they have ever been, and they will con.
tinue to be unless prevented BY proper legislation
There should, and ought to be to-day, twenty sheep
in Carolina where there is only one, and one
should be worth three such IS We now have.
But why should I OF any other man put himself
to much trouble or expense to raise likely sheep
when people are allowed to keep as many dogs as
they Il would It 't Ss ons to furnish victims
for hordes Of worthless dogs Give the farmer that
protection be needs and has right to. and at no
distant day the bills and valleys viii be dotted with
focks of sheep of different quality to those DOW
owned. The dog is the natural deadly enemy Of the
sheep, aud sheep know it instinctivelys hence
among all domestic stock, he is easy AID careless,
but so soon be gets sight Of the dog every nerve
is in motion, and he Is ready to be of in FASH
This fact teaches US that dogs should not be allow
ed to rove about in companies, nor singly, unless
his owner is with him TO keep him properly re.
strained Long experience has taught me sstisfao.
torily, that SO long as two or more dogs are kept
together, and permitted to run about together, so
long will sheep be killed by the dogs. Let the
law make it the bounden duty Of every man to keep
his dog strictly in his yard or kennel unless he is
with him, and soon there would>be no such thing
as the farmer having his sheep killed up by dogs,
and our tables would be much oftener graced with
quarter of nicely baked mutton, which is So much
relshed by almost every epicure. It would also be
of q quality superior to any xehave been Aecus
toned to. Until sheep are web raised it is useless
to talk Of having wool Of nice quality to make
nice and fine clothing, and to encourage the farmer
to raise he must have proper legal protection One
dotis enough to stay in any mans yard and, conse,
qusrtly, all over one on the same farm should te
taxed to an amount that no one would pay
In the judgment of the writer, the different acts
Of legislation for the protection Of sheep are insult
fcient because there has been no abatement in the
number killed. As Z reason for thus writing l Am
satisfied that it Is The interest Is well rs the duty
Of all communities to raise the material it needs for
its own consumption as far As it can, without de-
pending upon its neighbour his being the true basis
Of independence. We have legislation Of aprotec-
tive nature in almost every other case in which we
20 give to sheep the requisite protection, for it
parent their acts have thus far hiled to do 80.
WAKE FARMER 80