Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1908 — Dogs-Kill Many Sheep, [ARTICLE]

Dogs-Kill Many Sheep,

Dogs and disease killed more sheep in, Indiana daring: the last year than during the year previous, according to figures which have just been complied by the Indiana Bureau of Statistics. A total of 3,393 more sheep loht their lives during this y*sr than during 1907. The number was 57,906, as against 53,973 last year. ■ *« Notwithstanding that more she p were killed by dogs and disense, th re are more sheep in Indiana now than at this time last year, the Hoosier fanners now owning 673,573 hend, as against 635,094 head last year. There was a big decrease, however. In the number of sheep sold, the total.number being 464,116 as against 524,807 the year before. There was also a decrees* In. wool production. The figures of the bureau show that 3,839,016 pounds of wool were clipped daring the last year. The wool clipped during the year preceding amounted to 3,918,176 pounds. The oounties ranking highest »s wool prducers this year are: Steuben, 209,981 pounds; Lagrangs, 168,894; Noble. 132,382; Dekalb, 128,886; Allen, 114978; Koeeiusko 104.174. The counties raaklag highest In point of sheep'now on hand art: Lagrange 31,226 head; Steuben, 30,660; Dekalb, 20,710; Montgomery, 20,067; Noble, 19,905 and Kosciusko 17,726. Ttfo highest counties In point of sheep sold are: Lagrange 39,970 Steuben, 26,638; Kosciusko, 18,144; Noble, 17,846; Montgomery, 16,596. The counties losing the must sheep during the last year by disease and at the hands of sheep-killing dogs were: Montgomery 4.062 bead; Kosciusko, 2,706; Steuben, 2,841; Lagrange, 1,923; Dekalb, 1868; Marshall. 1,766, and Noble, i,710. No woman can be expected to talk her best when she Is undressing the bapy sod has her mouth full of safety