The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-01-24

which Is b best plan In the manage
ment of cattle in transit as regards
feeding and watering. Our readers
are aware that there is a law to the
effect that cattle must leave the cars
every % hours for food and water.
The idea of this law was that cattle
suffered badly when allowed to re-
main over that length of time without
food or water, for many trips to mar
ket occupy much more than the length
of time mentioned. 1t would now
seem that stockmen do not like this
28 hour law and claim that it Is really
cruel, more so than it would be to all
low the cattle to go for 40 hours with
out food or water. They say that the
cattle have to be beaten to make them
leave the cars, that they stumble and
fall In the chutes, that they become
bruised and spoiled for sale, all OF
which things would not happen were
they allowed to go hungry and thirsty
until arrival at their destination.
1t is perfectly apparent that it would
be an easy case to make out in favor
OF starving and thirsting the cattle by
those who do not wish to go to the
trouble of unshipping for feeding in
transit but we are inclined to believe
that he practice of allowing the cat
tie to suffer for lack of food and water
would be worse than any evils alleged
TO happen to them when unshipped in
transit for feeding and watering.
Ihose who are in the business Of ship
ping cattle long distances are, how
eve hnCt oh1a IN 11Aa1r 49, S~n
ence and the Farmers Review would
be pleased to hear from such and gain
a knowledge of their experience in the
matter. 1t is certainly a subject which
deserves consideration by the press
and as there is some talk of having a
4O hour law adopted we would like
TO have the subject discussed by our
readers. The following is an article
from the Drover's Journal, which will
add to what has been said above:
The so-called 2S-hour stock law,
which stockmen hope to have changed
to the 40-hour law, was the subject Of
active discussion before the American
Humane society at Pittsburg. The
address of President John w. Springer
OF the National Live Stock Association
was a very forcible one. He presented
a series of photographs showing he
incidents of travel in a cattle train,
and of being unloaded for feed and
water at stations en- route. His special
mission was to convince the protec-
tors of dumb animals that it Is more
humane to allow the cattle trains to
be run through without stop, making
the trip from range to slaughter in 40
hours, than it is to compel a stop
every % hours, as at present, when
the animals are driven from the cars,
given food and water in strange SUI
roundings and then hurried on board
again He ~endeavored to show the
eastern people at the convention that
the cattle ON the western plains fire.
quently of their own volition go 40
hours without water, visiting the
streams and water holes only once in
two days. He had photographs show
ing how the animals have to be beaten
to make them leave the cars, how they
stumble and fall and are trampled
upon in going up and down the chutes,
and how upon release frequently make
the first use of their larger quarters
to &c to fighting. In the collection
were pictures of beef killed at Chicago
and Omaha, in which whole sides of
meat were ruined by the COMMISSIONS
and bruises resulting from the rough
treatment required by the law enacted
at the behest of the Humane society.
While the cattle are in the cars. Mr..
Springer explained they are so packed
together that each acts as a buffer for
the other, and they suffer little actual
injury. The National Live Stock ex-
change, all the big cattle growers as
sociations, and the National Live
Stock Association want to have the
interstate commerce law, which now
fixes the limit of single trips Of cattle
cars at % hours, amended so as to
make the limit of time which cattle
may be carried without stops for food
and water 40 hours. The aid of the
National Humane society is asked in
making the change purely as a hui
manitarian measure. II necessary a
fight will probably be made in con
gress.