Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 332]

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318 fere tit thing. It reduces the number of dogs. W e want to get rid of three-fourths of the dogs in the State. Mr. M. L. DUNLAP—I think we can soon settle this question. I therefore move that Messrs. Garland, Scott and Baldwin be appointed a committee to draw up a law to be presented to our Legislature. Dr. WARDER—I keep two dogs. One I value at fifty dollars; the other is a plaything, valued at five dollars. I would not keep a dog that was not worth the taxes. But there are too many worthless dogs in the country for the good of those who keep sheep. I know the difficulty in collecting the dog tax, and know it is not successful. I will tell you wrhat I do. I prepare strychnine and salt my sheep with it. The dogs get it. [Laughter.] I make a great many enemies by it. I could not be elected a constable in my district, because they say they will not vote for a man that will kill a poor man's dog. Still these same men will sit at my table and eat my mutton. They forget this when they come to vote. The resolution of Mr. Dunlap passed. QUESTION—Can sheep be cured of the scab ? Mr. GARLAND—I think they can. I cured a flock of 1,000 by dipping them in a strong decoction of tobacco water. The difficulty is in dipping only once. Two applications are necessary. I have on two different occasions cured sheep of this disease in that way. There are a number of nostrums through the country, but they are worthless. QUESTION—Would it not be best to remove them from the flock?

Mr. GARLAND—Yes.

Mr. GARLAND, in answer to a question of Mr. Eice, said: When the wool is long it requires three or four times as much liquid. I raise a platform, and the juice runs back in the tub. I send to St. Louis and get the sweepings that are bought cheap. Mr. ROBINSON—Are stems used ? Mr. GARLAND—Yes ; but I do not think they are any cheaper than the leaves, had in the way I have suggested. A VOICE—I will state that a neighbor of mine tried this remedy without success. Mr. GARLAND—I think the only difficulty must have been in the thoroughness, that is in the want of thoroughness.