Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1918 — Enemy of the Dog Figures High Cost of Keeping Pet [ARTICLE]

Enemy of the Dog Figures High Cost of Keeping Pet

A dog hater in New Hampshire, stimulated by the campaign for food conservation, sharpened his pencil and this Is what he figured: One person in 20 keeps a dog; that’s 5.000,000 dogs. It costs ten cents a day to feed a dog, or $36.30 a year for one, and $182,000,000 per annum for all of them. With flour at sls a barrel, this sum would buy 12,166.000 barrels of flour. If loaded 12 barreft to each motortruck, 1,000,000 trucks would be required to load the flour, at one time, and they would make a procession 2,272 miles in length. The figures seem to be all right and unquestionably Impressive, but who can estimate the heart pangs and personal loss of 5,000,000 small boys if deprived of their dearest treasure?— Popular Mechanics Magazine.