St. Tammany farmer., 1917-08-11
WHAT SHEEP INDUSTRY
MAY BE BROUGHT
TO HERE.
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pure bred bucks, they could be made
to weigh ten pounds more per head,
and would produce annually two
pounds OF wool more per head than
the grade we have they would be
worth at least $500 per head more,
and we could thus increase their
value in the parish by $914,808.0O.
Add this to what we have estimated
them at, Sc per head or $2,744,424,
and we have a total of $3,659,232
worth of sheep we could have instead
of 5000 worthless dogs. But who
cares to pay s35 to $50 for a fine
pure bred buck to be killed by some
worthless dog, perhaps in three
days?
This is not all, yet. 1t is we'll
established fact that the waste and
scraps fed to a dog would keep up
common pig, that at one year old
would weigh at least 100 pounds &C
foot. which at IA cents per pound
would be S14 per head or the neat
little sum of $4,000 per year, in
stead of 5000 worthless, mangy,
egg-sucking, sheep-killing cur dogs.
Swat the dogs and feed the hogs!
Swat the dogs and save the sheep!
Add this $4,000 per year to the
$3,659,232 and you have $@,12G,-
232 of a difference in the wealth of
this parish.
But some people will say that all
dogs do not kill sheep, and that
is true. But any dog viii. learn to
kill sheep il he is allowed to associ-
ate with dogs that do. But it IS
true that some dogs do Kill them ana
the few that do can DESTROY many
head of sheep and spoil other dogs,
and a sheep-killing dog is one sim
ner that never repents. The only
remedy yet found is kill the dog"
Whether he kills sheep or nor, lie is
not worth a $14 hog every year. So,
swat the dog and feed the hog.
At this particular ..me, With a
general food shortage all over the
world, with the Whole world at war,
and millions of soldiers; to be fed
while they are fighting for our lib
critics, and for the liberties OF gem
erations yet unborn, and our gov
eminent doing its utmost to raise
all and save all that is possible, and
while millions Of widows ami multi
piled millions of fatherless children,
whose husbands and fathers have
laid down their Ives for the cause
We are now warning, ana crying TO
US form across the seas for food, it
is time to call halt on his waste.
The time is close al hanu YES dl
most at our doors, when all over our
beloved land will be heard the moan
ings of bereaved widows and the
crying of fatherless and hungry
children. 1t is time for US to call a
halt on this enormous waste. In
der the present circumstances, il is
almost inhuman, unchristian, uupa-
triotic and criminal 20 fed the or
phan's meat to worthless dogs. Swat
the dogs and feed the hogs! Swat
the dogs and raise mutton and wool
to feed and clothe our armies and
our widows and orphans, and at the
same time add millions Of dollars
parish.
In conclusion, l wish to cite two
or three instances that have been
related to me lately showing the
great damage done to sheep by dogs.
= Just little while back. a gentleman
living in Slidell was told of two dogs
going into the woods at night Ithese
were town dogs). He went On a
hunt of them next morning and soon
took their trail. He passed by SIS
head Of dead sheep while on their
trail, and overhauled tn em about II
o'clock. The owner of the dogs
could not have paid for one sheep at
81, and needed no guarl dogs, for
he had nothing worth stealing.
On another instance, recently two
dogs were known to be killing sheep
and after three weeks watching by
two men they we're finally caught
and killed. These two dogs were
known to have killed 80 sheep, and
the owner was a worthless turpen-
tine camp negro.
Here we have 1O5 sheep killed,
worth $500 at least, by four dogs
that were worth nothing. Yet the
owner of such dogs is often times
not able to feed his own family
properly, but at the same time he
will feed enough to these dogs to
keep from his children a 100-pound
hog for every dog he owns. lie has
never thought of this perhaps.
Well, we give him the thought free
OF charge. II he is again guilty Of
giving his children's food unto dogs
he ought to be heartily ashamed of
himself. Swat the dogs and feed
the hogs. Sheep and dogs cannot
both flourish in the same territory.
II you will keep the dogs, sell your
sheep. If you want to raise sheep.
kill the dogs. Let our battle cry be
"A hog for every dog, and a sheep
tor every acre of pasture available" :"
II every parish in the State will
do this, enough can be saved &c feed
every soldier the State will send to
the battle fields of Europe.
In a later article l shall try to
see what is wrong with our d)g Jaw,
that it is not enforced in this parish.
Very respectfully,
H. F. HAWKINS.
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