Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-09
fyfom the Chicago Tribunc.l
Wolves.
Bro MONEY IN LUpICuLTURE.

me- MONEY IN LUPICULTURE.
Al honest farmer came into the
Tribune Office on Saturday and
wrote ont an advertisement, swami
ID, for agricultural purposes, two
yoke of healthy wolves. Address
shepherd, this Office" A report
or, who had noticed the singular
wording Of the advertisement, en-
tered into conversation with the
honest farmer on the subject:
"You see," said the bronzed ag.
riculturist, we raise a good many
sheep In my section.'
HButI don't see," said the re.
porter.
- ElstsynnSwill. Z. said the farmer,
|sif you will only listen. We raise
a GOOD many sheep in our section,
and the business is overdone-no
money ID it. Iprefer to raise wolves.
You see, there is the bounty on
wolves.sealps. My she.wolf hatch
es out three broods of wolves every
year, and, on an average, has five
wolf fOals at time. Fifteen wolf.
scalps-it makes no difference if
they are day old or year, they
are scalps in the eye Of the Revised
Statutes-15 a year at $5, is S75, and
that is a blamed sight more money
than you can make out of a yoke of
Sheep"
"But doesn't their keep cost some.
thingp asked the reporter.
"Nothing-that is to say, hardly
anything. My neighbors, as l have
already said, raised great many
sheep, and there is no money in the
business, SO at night l let my buck
wolves out, and, as they are good
providers for their families, and
characterized by strict application
to business, they bring back enough
manufactured woollen hats and
crude mutton fricassee to supply
themselves and my family too. 1t
is blessing TO my neighbors, too;
there is no money in sheep at pres:
ent, and besides the principles of
political economy teach us that
when any industry is suffering from
over.prodnction that the right way
to give it relief is to curtail produc-
tion. Besides, there are further
advantages about the process which
may not at first occur to you. For
instance, as I keep the secret of my
wolfiary to myself,-for the world
in all ages has been suspicious and
envious Of its great men,-part OF
the neighbors attribute the dlmi-
MUTTON in the mutton crop to dogs,
and part to wolves. The result is
that a strong feeling in favor of the
paym ent of bounties for the de-
,truction of the latter rapacious an.
mails prevails in our county, and
The discussion of the dog-law ques-
lion in all its various aspects con-
luces to keep alive and feed the
sacred fame of oratory.
"Of course there are seasons of
The year when the sheep are penned
up, but then those wholesome and
nutritutious fruits, the yellow and
brindle dogs, are in season, and, as
the impulse of every farmers dogs
is to 60 out and nominate a partisan
ticket when they see anything with
four legs and tail passing peacea.
bly, along the road at night, my
wolves live on the fat of the land.
Old David Davis, my senior wolf,
comes home often with as many as
four and five dogs Of night, and,
though their skins are too much
clawed and bit up to be available
for mittens, their fat is good for
rheumatism.
"Then again my wolves and my.
self are on a footing of mutual
respect and liberation, and they
make the best sort of watch dogs,
i've often thought of taking out
i patent for them. One of my
William NJ. Springer T've
him-w0uld amuse YOU
Syou could see him after light
special com missioner. II
,ut up a post about twelve feet
nigh in my front yard, with a few
staples driven promiscuously into
It SO that if a man had business at
be top of the post he could attain
hereto without any unnecessary
waste of time. About once or
week during the busy sea-
ION hear Q noise like q whole me-
lagerie broke loose, or a ward meet.
ng, and when come out of the
,arn see man on top of that post
md old William M. Springer walk
ID round it on his hind legs and
,pening a mouth like a carpet sack
ull of hand-saws. l discover
hat my visitor is agent for light
ling.r company, or a wire fence,
II an orchard and garden seed
louse, and that William NJ. SPRING
IT has let him advance beyond his
,ase of supplies, cut his lines of
with the gate, and
lriven him in great disorder to the