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Hasn't Much Use For Dogs

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
January
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

HASN'T MUCH USE FOR DOGS

Farmer Figures Out Cost of Keeping Them

ONE DOG EQUALS 60 HENS

Museums and Zoological Garden the Only Place for the Dogs

A farmer in Green Oak, a township just north of Washtenaw, with a penchant for figures, launches out in the South Lyon Excelsior with a diatribe against dogs. His figured are interesting. He says there are 90 dogs on the assessment roll of Green Oak, and that it costs as much to feed the average dog as to feed 60 hens. This at first blush, he acknowledges, seems wide of the mark but the dog is fed three times a day of 365 days or 1905 meals a year, while the hen is fed twice a day for four months or 240 meals and has to scratch for herself the rest of the year. This being grated, 5400 hens can be kept at the expense of keeping 90 dogs. Now, he says, the hen will furnish 10 dozen eggs or 600 dozen eggs for 60 hens, which at 12 cents a dozen is $72, then the hens will bring 50 cents each in February or $30 more, which makes $102 receipts from the hens which the food one dog consumes would keep, or $9180 for the 90 dogs. In spite of the fact, he admits, that some may think he ought to be sent to a district school to get his head repaired, he continues: "I would not have the dog wiped off the globe, but I would have a few nice specimens set up for the museums, and a few live specimens kept in the zoological gardens."