The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-01-25
CAUGHT At RANDOM.

Il am happy to see that the city
is after the owners OF unlicensed dogs,
, and is requiring that all such CANNES
be licensed or killed" said a western
man. THAT reminds me, that, within
a short while, the great sheep raising
industry of the west is coming south.
In fact, at the meeting of the wool
growers in q western state a short
while ago. the president of an organi-
cation invited the sheep men to trans
fer their activities TO Georgia. The
sheepmen are coming, too, for / am
interested, and know something about
1t. But that has taken us off the
original line of discussion, which was
on dogs. You might not catch the con-
nection between the licensing of dogs
and the great sheep raising industry,
but when l tell you one of the great
est enemies to sheep herd is vicious
dog, then you will understand my
reasons for seemingly gloating over
the eradication of some of these use
less animals. If the sheep-raising
should come to Escambia county il
would pay the citizens to see TO it thai
every stray, sheep-killing animal of
this kind were either tagged, kept in
a pen or killed. If the owners allowed
dogs of these tendencies to run at
large. I believe there should attach
a severe penalty and the menace to the
sheep-raising industry would soon be
lessened'
Recently I have become interested
in shipbuilding, and do you know there
are certain woods growing in abund-
ance in Florida which bid fair to be
come famous in entering into the con-
struction of vessels" said a gentle
man. For the past five or six months,
all the oak knees have been taken
wherever found, and this tree cannot
be beat in this respect, but If you go
into the swampy lands and along the
banks OF the rivers, or bays, or the
bayous, you will find cypress pecu-
liarly shaped, a almost correctly
curved. Cypress is a wood to stand
by, for il will stand by you. and last
for years, and I understand that it
is plentiful. Then the gum tree is
another valuable ship building ma
teriaL Trees of black gum are plenti-
full, and with the rapid cutting Of ths
pine and the oak, the cypress and
gum promise to play quite a part in
the extensive ship construction along
the gulf coast. I am informed that
both cy press and gum have been drawn
on extensively in the building OF ships
in Santa Rosa county, and at other
places
I'm the northeastern part of the city,
where the great oaks shed large guam
titles of leaves during the past couple
of storms, I was gratifled Sunday last
to NOTE said an old time citizen,
that advice which friend OF mine
offered at the time had been taken to
heart by several and the leaf supply
conserved. AT the time. IL You will
remember, suggested that IL would
be NOT an unwise thing To bury these
leaves, and I am happy to state tia.
a number whom I have already in
terviewed followed the advice, and one
man told me he had saved enough to
enrich his ground beyond telling. Ee
said he buried the leaves about his
place. placing a plentiful mixture OF
nitrate OF soda and hen house drop
pings. The result is. he said, he
thinks he has enough fertilizer to
bring forth from a limited patch of
ground in his three lots not only