The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-08-09 00:00:00

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DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1881.

AWlitLiaT INITICTION.—The I Battery C
Brigade
R MA. were 'expecte I at Maiden oa.tle on liatur.,ay
by Colonel Smythe. Toe g,allxnt colonel gave a Patis•
factory report of the general appearance awl efficiency
of the men.

Twu
ALDMISROT CAMP.—Our Dorchester Volunteers
mesterei in consider thle I on Sater.lay nrig
at Lb* Drill Hall. tinder the c..tnumu,l (.1 Captain
Ho Igo* Headed by t c band 1 the corps, they pn ,-
Cee4o,l to the ktation, when they left by the exprese for
Alderehiwt.

STICALING F..UlT.—iolomon Lake, :fames Byrnes,
and Arthur SwatrirLe were ounemoned for swilling
gnes.berriee from the garden of Ntr. Saundere. They
pleaded guilty, and were fined 6,1. and the corkta-64. 6 L
with.— re. Bench wera (tete-ruined to atop this sort of
Mimeo, and if they were brought bare again they would
be sent to gaol.

USIIIO OILICCNI LAINGUAGL—James Loader was
charged with usirg obocnne language lit the public
street% on August Ist Heagerty said ha was on
duty in Millistreet on the ni4ht of the lg.. He paw
the defendant there fighting with a 'ldler. \Vitae'.
separated them, and ordered L'ailer home, when he
used obscene langusge. He wis not (blink. -liefetd-
ant denied using the bad language complaiiied of. The
soldier had him down n the ground, but 'he didn't
icy a word ti noboly."—:iolonton Lako was in Mill
-
street when His row was going on. Fla saw the ,lice
*operate the pirtier, and witness took Loader home.
If there had been any hid I inguage used sh.iuld
hese heard it —Fined se. and roits, and all 'wed a
week to pay.

Dausaszonts& —James Brown pleaded guilty to
being drunk at Fordingtou ou 26th July, and was
fined ss. and cost?.

ALLEOED CRUELTY Ti) A COW.

At the Borough Police-court this morning,
before Mr. Alderman Curiae (us ths chair), Mr.
Alderman Greg ivy, Mr. Alderman Davis' Dr.
Aldridge. A. Emson, Esq., J. Tu 'o^, Esq., J. Petard-
Jillard, Esq., and F. Lick, Esq.,
Mr. Ge ,r,pt Symonds, fartrwr, of Monckton, was
summoned for cruelty to a cow by overstocking.
Mr. Davies(Sherle.erne)prJatcu'sd, and Mr. Howard
(Weymouth) defended.
George William Ap' lin one of the officers for the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, said on Saturday July 21d, betwo in one and
two o'clock, he visited Mr. Ensor's stle-yird, aud
there loon I a cow belon;ing to the defiridant vary
much overstocked indeed. Fie stoo I mind watched her,
and found when it stood still the milk dropped from
her. When she lifted up one of her hind les to relieve
henelf, the milk Sowed out in stream.. fie felt the
udder, which he found to be very hard and distended,
slid very hut indeed. At the head of the cow was a
oat', which was muzzled. Witness spoke to Mr.
Symonds about it, when he told him the cow was
milked between five and six the night previous. die
'eked him if the calf was muzzled at the same time,
sod he said yes. Witness said "Then that makes 20
to 21. hours since the cow was milked." Mr. Martin,
the veterinary surge me, examined the cow.
William Henry Martin s sid he was a veterinary
surgeon. On the day in question, at the re inset of
the last witness, he went to Mr. Resor's reposit wy.
He found the cow greatly overstocked with milk. The
udder was distended and very hut, and the cow
appeared to be suffering pain.
Inspector Aplin was re-called, and in reply to a
question by Mr. Davies, said Mr. Symonds stid the
reason he brought the cow into the market like
that was that ho could not sell it otherwise, die
had had many similar cues, and in his opinion the
CAW was suffering pain, and had been for • consider-
able time.
Mr. fi ward: What is a considerable Bins d
Witness: Three or four hour,.
Mr. Howard: Row long have you been in till em-
ploy of the a iciety
Witness: Between four and fi!o
" "

What were you before?—Police-Scroant in the
Weet Riding Oonstsbulary.
What were you bet Td that? -A land surveyor.
Did you keep cows ?—No.
When you went int this ya-d, what time was it ?
Between one and two.
_ .

Did you epeak to him first, or his inan ?-I spoke
to the man first, alit asked him who the cow belnNed
to.
What reply sill he make? -I don't remember, bnt
I believe he s iid Mr. Symende.
Did you advise hi nto milk the c ?-I
Did you order him to do it 1-I advised his,, to milk
tha cow, to relieve her I did not order -I
never order anybody. Mr. Martin was there at the
time.
Up to the time the cow wig mi kol did you see Mr.
Symon.le ?-11. believe it was afterwar Is.
Did you see Mr. Symonds at all abent the cow
before it was milkel?-1 believe I did. Mr. Marti
spoke to him while I was with him.
Did you speak to him? -I should say I did.
Will you swear you did ?-I will. I advised him to
have the cow milked.
Then it amid not be true you give a peremptory
order to the man to milk the cow beture y sow Mr.
Byrnonda?-erteinly not.
Did you examine tho udder of the cow -I dii, and
felt it. It was sory hard.
Was it a fleshy udder? -No, it was not.
Can you form soy opinion how much milk it ou;ht
to give?-1 cannot. I did not see the quantity of milk
that was taken from the cow.
Is it not usual ifer cow t 3 be sent into the market
not milked?
Mr. Davies : Yes, but that does net make it legal.
Witness: Mr. Symonds said it woe a custom, and my
reply to that was-" It was a very list one
In reply to Mr. Davies, witness sail the Igo eiety was
stopping the custom of mending onmiikel c iws to
market in Somerset, Kent, Lancashire, and other
counties.
Mr. Martin, re-called, sail the cow dropped the
milk from over-distension, and not from weakness. He
had no doubt whatever that the cow was suffarieg
pain.
Mr. Howard: Would the udder be reduced to its
normal state by being milked there ant then ?-Yes.
And what you saw would dieapeew sitar the first
milklng!-Yes.
When eews have calves ii not the udder sometimes
hard?. -Yee.
And WM this hardness in the present inetancs the
moult of calving or being over-stocked ?-from being
over-stocked.
By Mr. Davies : If the cow ba I only recently
calved it was all the more necessary it should have
been milked leas than 21 hours.
Mr. George Evans, was next called. Ifs lived at
Wells. and said he was a member of ths Royal College
of Veterinary Surgeone. He lied been in prictide 23
years. lie gave it as his decided opinion that to keep
a cow recently calved 21 hours without milking would
came pain. It was no unusual time for an ordinary
cow. If a cow's udder is hard and irolurated, and the
milk is dropping, it was a sure sign of fever and pain.
If the milk did not drop the abwolute structure would
have to give way. In a cow with a healthy udder the
cow had to be overstoeked before the milk would
drop.
In reply to Mr. Howard, witness said in some cases
the milk would fi we without pain, blot in his opinion it
was brotutht on by previous' overstocking. Some cows
would let their milk run with very little etockine.
Cows that newt's/ leaked their milk did not older pain.
How lone would it take fo- the cow to be overstocked
for the wider to gat har 1?-1n the case of a sew
recently calved, 12 hoer' weed be long enough to
overstock it.
How lone would it t the ti reduce it to its normal
etatel-In some km :vices, some dlr.; the festar would
be redweed immediate Iv on being milked.
1101 V do COWS exhibit signs of pain ?-The teats are
disoolonred, her I, an I pointed, c instant twitching of
the tall, an anxious countenance, sometimes it ipped
chewing the cud. viry often moaning, and were alto-
gether out of order.
By Mr. Davies : When the cow generally leaks the
udder was soft, but if the udder was hard and dis-
tended the cow was suffering pain.
Dr. Aldridge : Could you, while the udder was hard
sad distended, tell whether the cow had a fleshy udder
when in its normal condition ?-Mont certainly.
For the defence, Mr. Howard said he should prove
the now was in no pain, and that the udder was flush,.
He should prove that the officer gave peremptory orders
to the man to milk the cow, of %bleb he complaine I
very much. The man milked the cow, and took two
quarts of milk from her, thereby destroying the
evidence fur the defence. Altegather five or mix quarts
was all the milk that was taken from an udder which
would bold 10 or 11. There will no hest or fever, and
all the fever there wee was in the Inspector's brain.
(Laughter.) He did not mean that the officsr had
ma le an intentional mietake, but that there had been
a mistake there could be ne doubt.
John Burt, COWITIAII in the defendalt, sail he had had
to do with cows all his life. On the Jay in qiieetien he
brought the cow to the Dorchester Repository fir isle.
On the p-evions icy the cow was milked absent four
o'olock. The calf was with her till six, when ithe was
let out, lie brought the cow to the yard the fellowing
morning. So far en he c intl see the cow was not in
min. The Inspector ,a-ne to him and asked him when
It was milked. De tell him, and he then to k out
his watch end vail, 'Toe time is no for the heifer to
be milked." lie eai I ho in•isted on his milking her,
and witneee reolied. "1 wish you wenl,l just name it
to master," but hs till bins torn }dwell, and while
the inspector was talking to Mr. tivinonde witness
milked her. Ile hail no trouble with her. The older
had been swollen ever since the eow hai salved. There
uset have been some milk dropped. The swollen
u er was not from overstocking. Altogether about
ire qusit• of milk were taken from her.
M. Davies: Do you think it a proper thing to
tears a cow with a swollen udder 21 hours without
woe milked ?-It was not swollen so much SA that.
Wny is the mow it ockeil? It is not much good to
bring aows into the market if they are not stocked.
it would have been the proper time ti have
milked her ? -Between six and seven.
Wew she in the habit sr( &moping -No.
Charles Whittle Gale, residing at Broedwsy, sail he
bud beep • dairyman all his life. On the day in
cstion he was in the Rep miters.. and saw the cow.
es he saw her at 12 °clock she awes chewing her
cud as quietly as any cow in Eug'ited. He did not
believe there was any milk dropped till her teat, were
touched. There was not a sien of inflemmasion in
her udder. C.lllll that are free to milk dropped when
their teats were tonehed. The teste were quite soft.
and were not dim-dem-4 in the least, awl if there
was inflammation they wool,' turn purple and the c ow
would grind her teeth. Teem was not one of the
symptoms of overstocking which Mr. Evans had
mentioned. At this time of the year the heifer in
.question would give a better odder in 12 hems than
some would in 21. It was not a swollen udder, but a
lieeht one.
Mr. Davies: Do you coneider it cruel to keep
a
,cow recently calved stocked fir 21 hour. ?-Nn.Mr. Devito : Have you got a wife ?-I have.
Have you any children ?-I have.
Mr. Davies: Then when you go home just ask your
444 her °pluton on it.

Mr. Howard objected to thin.
Mr. Davies: I should like to try this cue before •
jury of matrons.
Mr. nam Jiffard : I fur one certainly do not
approve of such langnag...,
•tr. Davies: It is • question of pain or not pain.
Mr. Bymonde reminded Mr. Davies that the Bench
had expressei an opinion,
for him to retort. and it wan most irregular
Mr. Davies : I put it at a question of humanity.
Charles Hyde. 'lra% ba,liff to Mr. John Grove', of
Weymouth, said the cow was brought to the farm at
Broadmayne, and since sent to Weymouth. He
examined the cow in the saleyard, and found no signs
of pain. On the folio vim; morning she ware her milk
very well inclee 1. Ho kept her three weeks before she
Will sent to Weymouth, Anil he was very well
with hsr.

The Bench said there did not seem sufficient amount
of cruelty f. ir them to oinvict. and dismissed the
summons, but exprvssed the opinion that they did
not approve of this system of pennini back the
milk.