Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — A Word for the Dog. [ARTICLE]

A Word for the Dog.

A correspondent of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, noting that several letters have appeared recently in the newspapers, complaining that farmers cannot keep sheep on account of dogs, replies that in Europe, Asia and in the southwestern part of the United States, sheep always are in the care of shepherds and trained dog?. Sometimes the shepherd is a girl or a boy. Il dogs are practically banished from the state by too drastic legislation, how can farmers save their crops from trespassers, their fruit and vegetables from theieves? Automobiles have made it easy for thieves to escape with their plunder, if there is no dog to give alarm. Women and girls in the country will have to carry firearms to protect themselves against vicious tramps, if dogs are no longer with them. To keep a dog chained too closely or toe long a time is real cruelty.