Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     A Missouri farmer, after a long calculation, presents the following facts concerning dogs:-In thirty-two counties 10,602 sheep have been killed by dogs. He estimates the number of dogs in these thirty-two counties to be 462,000; that a hog will thrive on the food necessary to support an able-bodied dog, and at the end of a year weigh 200 pounds; therefore if the food for these dogs went to hogs, it would make 92,000,000 pounds of pork, worth, at six cents a pound, $4,550,000-nearly twice the value of all the schoolhouses in the state, and more than twice the amount used by the State for school purposes.