Astonishing Canine Facts

The oficial statistics show that durinn- 1898 thore were 29,915 sheep killed by dog in th.o state of Oliio, valued at $107,431, a.nd tliat from 1880 to 1893 inclusive, títere were 403,348 slieep killed by dogs, the valué oí the éhèep betag $1,456,003. Tliat was quite a loss to the farming oomnnuiity of that state. Added to that Hhoaüd be 826,585 sheep that were inju-red, but mot killed, valued at $642,374, niakiing a total loss by logs of $2,098,377. The agricultural statistics of Ohio further show that in 1893 there were 152,704 diogs in the state, and 600,463 önilcli coivs, or one dog to cvery fooir cows. The doigs are probably as mumerous in nearly every state in tlie UniO'ii, and certainly Michigan can easily duplícate Olno's figures in tliis line. Cousidêring tlie -t-omparative valué of the two anímate, does it nol :;eem strainge t!iat pcople "vvill insist upom keeping i-o mauiy at the worthless kind '.' It costa considerable to keep ii dog. rerhapfe toot quite as mucli as 1 o keep a cow, but very Jiear. It r(l.4s on aai averagO more to keep a dog thain it does a sheep, and yet the worfhless amlmal is kept in astonishing nunibers. There a.re people, and thiey are more commoii than ome would thtakfor, wbo would rather patrt wilth. a whole herd of mileB cows, alud several flock.s of sheep, thain to part wtth a pet tur, even though he be oí the meaaieat mongrel breedi ot only are dogs enemies to other a.niiiiaU. but oftcn to the human famiiy. amd it is not uncommon to liear of dea.ths of people, children especially, who have beon bitten by dogs, wliile tihoee who have hydropliob'a cansed by a dag's bite, might better by far be dead. It is thoaight that not moro i.Uan ome-tenth of the dogs in Ann Arbor havt paid the lieease oir tax required by law. Of comise eaeh cur roaming tlie streets wlthaat a tag is Hable tol ose liis breath, but still the majority of people who keep dog will figlit paying the dollar dog tax quicker and harder than they -would a burglar beallng tJieir property. Sncli iis the inconsisiency of the huma.n miind in the aggregate.