The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-02-07
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Central Record:
First let me say you are editing one
of the best county papers in the state.
You give all of the local news and still
enough State and National news to
satisfy those who do not take a daily
paper. am writing this to commend
three articles in your last paper. I am
sorry the one headed dogs a Pests to
Sheep Raisers" was in such an obscure
place; it should have been on the front
page or else in the Farmers Column; it
it should have been where ''he that
runs may read". because what you
said ways true and also true that the
farmers should stand together on this
subject and elect men to office who
will either kill dogs or collect tax.
The morning you get up and find a lot
of fine sheep killed you feel like you
would rather have dead dogs than
money, later you may change your
mind but it is too late then as this
years dog tax goes to pay for this
years sheep and unless the tax is col
lected when it should be you do not get
dollar for dollar on your sheep. Which
is worth more to Garrard Co. her sheep
or her dogs? /, too want to know how
much dog tax has been collected in
Garrard Co. and how many dogs have
been killed | see a lot of dogs living
quiet, peaceful lives that are not worth
a dollar but of course their owners
thinks so or else they would not be
living and | am willing for them to live
on Just so know that dollar has been
paid for sheep they may have killed.
Farmers, get together on this subject
and make your votes count for some
thing. The next article / want to
mention is the one on Graft. The
taEyayer knows too little about what
goes with his money. Now. if l were
aanding State, County or Town funds
| would want to give an itemized state
nIent of all expenditures so that no one
could say graft" in connection with
anything had done.
| Now. the last but by no means the
least important article | want to COM
mend is the one on borrowing. When
the farmer learns to equip himself as
does every other business man, then he
will succeed and not until then. Some
farmers borrow every thing they use
from a pocket knife to a reaper and
binder when all they have to lend is a
dull ak. 1t is about as merry" to
borrow a tarpauin as it is an umbrella
if not more so because a tarpaulin is
more expensive and when it gets a
hole or snag in it, then it is useless for
what it was intended. Some farmers
ride around over the country taking a
mental invoice of what their neighbors
have and nothing is too good for them to
borrow and nine times out of ten send
it home either broken or injured. Just
here let me put bug in your ear. A
man very seldom says anything when
it Is injured but he never does feel the
same toward the offender. This. if for
no other reason ought to stop the Dor
rowing habit. know one man when
he borrows your wagon always says;
BE sure and have it creased as / hap
penCO to be out of axle greese". l
know of another who borrows part of
the gear from one neighhor and part
from another thus putting two menout
the first time they go to hitch up a
team. o! NeighbOr. how MANY crimes
are committed in thy namel Farmers
are behind in their profession and the
time has come when he must think on
these things and whatsoever things are
honest and just and upright do but if
it is something you wouldn't have done
unto you, cut it out
A Farmer and a Subscriber.