The Robesonian., 1908-06-08
THE NO FENCE LAW IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
A Plea for the Cattle Nature
Intended They Should Roam at
Large More Fences Needed.

Large More Fences Needed.
(The writer requests The Cauca-
sian to please cOpy.D
To the Editor of The Robesonian.
After waiting for some time
in the hope that some one, who
might WELD more fluent pen,
would take up the subject of no
fence law in reply to an article
from the pen Of Mr.. B. F. Keith,
published in your and other pa
pers, feel it my duty, prompt
ed by a spirit Of human kind
ness toward my yet fortunate
fellow countrymen who are still
resting under the wings of ma
ture's noblest resort of freedom
and liberty, to give them a few
items in regard to the No Fence
Law. l write from personal eX-
periences in my daily occupation
and surroundings.
Now, in the first place, | will
say, in justice to Mr.. Keith, l do
not know in what part Of our
State he lives, and perhaps if |
did l might be somewhat more
lenient with his views on the
subject; yet there can be no ar
gument held forth that could
ever win me over to favoring the
stock, or no fence, law in any To-
cality, under existing circum-
stances. l am a farmers daugh-
ter, having grown up on the
farm, and it has been part of
my life work to tend the stock
of different kinds. | know their
nature, their habits, their wants
and their capabilities; | also
know that an all-wise and over
ruling Providence has provided
grass and herbs for his creatures
that we, His higher animals, can
only supply by artificial means.
| have been for fifteen years or
more living in and out of the
territory Of the no fence law,
and here in Robson county we
do not need it, and the majority
did not want it: it was forced up
on US by a petition of many forg-
ed names of women and children
who never even saw it. | know
there could be many arguments
brought up in favor of stock law
| have lived all along the line OF
the many provocations that We
had to endure before we haC
this abominable law forced upor
us, such as seeing our cattle anC
~ hogs spoiled by some ones LITTLE
pen with a shabby, unlawful
" fence, teaching otherwise harm
of less COWS to jump, and our hog
to throw off rails; l have ais
seen the cattle come home bleed
ing, shot, cut with axes, knives
etc. We knew this was tn
gu work of some worthless coward
tn the meanest kind of a person,
de of course we would say, bu
IN when you have tried the n
ell fence law, you will then decid
On thateverybody is themeanest kim
of a person. And while all thes
things are annoying grievar
| ces, they are nothing compare
to the many disadvantages an
toilsome labor brought about b
this law. Mr.. Keith speaks {
the one or two select COWS, an
the abundance of milk and bu
ter. In regard to this, | say yC
, can have one or two good cow
and have milk and butter for
- short while, but my eXperienC
and that of hundreds of others
that the COWS in confnemel
will not stay in a healthy cond
ton for any length of time; ar
then you will have to be dai
planting and gathering fC
G them a change of feed they mus
- have, and then they are subje
k. to diseases hitherto unknown (
heard of of-indigestion, sore fee
hollow horn and tail-to S;
nothing Of the many unnatu
al vices they develop whe
confined. Cattle are gregario
animals, andtaken and kept alOl
they become in a measure insal
: 2 or idiotic; and there is anoth
great disadvantage: when the
is little herd, or one or ty
kept for weeks in a pasture, tt
flies, gnats, mosquitoes, al
= other insects become a horr(
i collecting there and remainil
there through the entire seaso
becoming so numerous of ev
nings as to completely cover t
legs and underparts of the catt
so that one can scarcely disco
res the animals color, thus rendt
r, ing them poor and unprofital
to their owners. This goes
. prove to every intelligent, reasC
able person, that cattle were
tended to roam at large, goi
one day in this direction, {
other in that, thus Sinking a
great collection Of insects. If \
Keith will just travel over t
cry section of country that l he
/. recently passed over, | feel 81
ar that he and many others Wo
a. change their minds in regard
1V many things. Here and tn
along the roadside is to be see
you poor, forsaken-looking cow, cha
ed to stake or bush, in reach
De- scarcely mouth full of grs
Grand Family Medicine.
'It gives me pleasure to spet
GOOD word for Electric Bitter