Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-28
VIRGINIA SHEEP FOLDS
IN NEED OF PROTECTION
Meats High and Wool Out OF Sight.
Immense Profits Are in Sheep
Raising Industry.
MUTToN-LovING CUR TROUBLE
Inadequate Laws on Statute Books.
Legislators Hard To Morc-DoS
Must Go Before Industry Can BE
Pushed 10 Its Limit.

ne farmers OF ,ES ls4a nave lOl
several wears ms. ,,cr ,.L;,r ,p in.
"''N NV .Ash ~
~,
Ious ,-ic.s s,s 80 . 49, ,,,trc,s,,r
drn,.ns $, .rn-s> rsysr S-,sr,,s q,
before. every ss-icul,wris,S n tho State
who has sood grazing land wants 10 so
to raising sheer.
Hundreds .: the good farmers think
over this question .ati! their minds
reach the sheep k;'l;.E dog phase 81 il.
and then ;hey drop ;Ae subject. Just
why II has been impossible ~ set a
Virginia General Assembly 10 lcsislatc
the shesp-ki.iiuE dog oEt Il existence
IL is hard 10 tell but ~ one thing
everybody is certain. and thar is tina;
the cur dog must he driven out OF the
State before the sheep raising industry
can be brought 10 perfection IN N!r-
ginia.
Representative Lewis. OF Mcckl"n-
burg County. oTerec Dill IN the LeeiS-
lnture two sessions AGO which would
have filled the bill pretty we'll. and it
passed. hut some member worked in an
amendment which made the law OPERA
tive only in those counties in which the
Board OF supervisors adopted the law.
For some reason not over a half dozen
boards out of the leo in the State have
adopted the Lewis law. and so the bill
Is almost dead letter
A LAW SHOWN TO DE
RIDICULOUSLI INADEaUATE
THAI. :. ,,u. ,h;c, ;s .,,,o.,d 70
he in tho in,eras, of the sheen raising
,ndr.,-,. h,, {. rou. stands a,d b..
uo-,h ,ne no,ar :, 10 onrross.a and
n-in,ed mo, !, nroyidrs fnr dor
"a, va s.,s ,.;d. ,ho ,,,r., ,r;.irr
fro,, ,bis tax 60 nav sheen r,is.rs ,ha
do,,.rs .,.,,,r.d hr ,,,c ,,.,,.oe o-
,ho do,e wv, - ,,,l..s moo, rroyisio,
for w. .x,in,,;o, NJ o,,s,di,g ,..,i,es
NJ Tho wortbi.s. Ours rsc,ixcs tho ~.
ooI,ac,,,rs ,nd 20 -, has, ~. .u,h for
COMMUNICATING ,he farmer for IN. sheA,
L,usd hv dors IN ,rv county ,b., mikes
any nre,cnsc a, sheen raising IS riaicu
Ious,w inadsor,,o !, Tho second
n,,ce tho law is much s.r;c,.- ,rains.
tho sheen owner when /, comes IN IN.
assessment, and proof Of damage than
{. ;s arains, the owner nj ~. dog
which did Tho mischief !, nrovidas
ina, the dead and injured sheen mus;
no v;swed and d.rar.s assessed hv
Two men Who mus, he entirely disio.
ts,e.,es. martins ,ba, n saw Il .hav
- -.-o,.iv rs,.s n - ;,urod
r 49, IVA ,-s5,.o. ~ -, .rv
W.. ,5.v ,e4, .v., -A-o.a i,.a-es.
I, -. ys,,,-a NJ -. 80, who's. sheen
have h..- sla,- hoy a-e j-cor,e-.,,
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,..sx1 .rs.s- - 6,-srAs a-d he
&c m. -e,-,-a6 - 80 vt. czIi.a u,oo
s,S Sc w.. re co4s &c. j, y rur.Iv
aver - he INJURED friend Wbar
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CASE. TuIT ppo,ES IT'S
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co-It,p b,s ;,,.,.s,i,v s,o-v NO o,c.
te6 largo ~ az ss,.., rbo dncs
ho,b.-st rim 49, Ti,,1. nv, ,,h., orh.
o,s ., ,y.o sb.., n.-a Lu,oa y, al
MT ~. ~. ,,nuh,. ~ cor,I,, ,i,n
+be ,u,e,e-or,. law +, ,bo ,r.,,or
claiming his share of the dog ,ax f,rd
nv. ,iqh, WORTHLESS our ,,.,aroi
- ,ror,,I..s ,h;,. 49, 49, a,,
hoasted ,ha- no aIwsye fou,d so,a
Wv 70 dodya ~. ~ s,o.,,,r 1
cn,iec,or. ava bsa ,ov.r ca,,-,,,,,a,
. 80, 80 ,,,a ,,,..
State, made a raid on This ren,lc,nan's
flock and killed sixteen fine sheen /,
so happened that the sheep raiser be-
longed 70 one OF the old large, AMI
pro!iac families OF the county, and all
OF his nearby neiGhbors at that time
were either nearly or remotely related
TO him and so he had 10 ride more than
I'VE miles before he could find two mon
who were competent 10 sit ~ Jurors