The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-31
Years Work of
Humane Society

Reports showing the work of the
Connecticut Humane Society during
the past year were presented at the
annual meeting of the society We'd
nesday. Directors, honorary vice
presidents and the following officers
were elected for the coming year.
-Treasure-ReV DR. VIII
liam DeLoss Love.
secretary-Miss Mary E. J. LaIly.
Assistant Secretary-Dr. G. Pierre
pont Davis.
Executive Committee = Rev. DR..
William DeLoss Love, DR.. G. Pierre
pont Davis, Rev. DR.. Francis Good
.wins John d. Browne, Charles Hop.
kfns Clark. Atwood Collins, Frances
Parsons, Ralph W. Cutter.
General Agents A Gard
ners Herbert S. Wells.
Presidents Report.
The presidents report was, in sub
stance:
''The demand for the services of this
society in rural communities is large
ly Increasing. This is due both to
degeneracy in native families and the
phenomenal accessions our country
districts have had from abroad. Years
will be required to develop the latent
forces in our foreign-born peoples that
are settling everywhere on our aban-
QOned farms. There Is, however.
great hope of their future. They are
Industrious and generally economical
and thrifty. They live where others
cannot, promising future for the
large neglected territory of this state.
Yet many of them are Iamentably ig-
norant. They need instruction in do
nestle affairs and farming. Living In
isolated homes, they have little
influence to help then
7ov Cd IN
language, by which they may be in
in our ideals of home build
ing, the care of children and cleanIi-
ness If they had visitation of a prac
teal and helpful sort from their own
people, we might expect great i'm
provement. We should not expect
them to adopt at once our standards
of living These people must be ta-
ken as they are-in some respects, the
children of our modern civ
iIization. The district school in the
country districts is to-day the great
uplifting force in these families. as it
reaches the second generation. It
might, perhaps, do more in practical
for is there not the same
need for industrial and domestic edu-
cation in the country as exists in the
city?
1--WE suggest an amendment to the
probation law, by which, when COM
mitments are brought in probate
courts, the judges of such courts be
empowered to appoint probation Of
dcers.
s'The society's cases in the animal
have varied little from
former years. The short hay crop of
1911, and the high cost of feed, re-
suited in some bad cases of underfeed-
Ing. Some owners learned, we trust,
that such treatment does not pay, as
lie Of
little value.
1.-The conditions under which hui
name work for animals must be done
in our cities are rapidly changing. MO
tor vehicles are dispracing the horse,
and there is a tendency to hurry him,
when he is used. to keep the pace
He must work on slippery and icy
There are more accidents.
Stray and neglected cats are numer-
Gus. The office of the dog warden
has been created to meet a need. Res
cue agencies, sometimes equipped for
veterinary work, are .springing up in
our cities. Their experience is JUS
tifying the effort.
Under the auspices of the COM
mittee on humane education, much
work has been done IN winning the
school children to humane work, and
1908 have signed the Band of Mercy
pledge.
humane law printed in Yiddish, Po-
Iish and Italian, has been widely dis
tributed. An appeal for the family
cat, made through the newspapers
at the beginning of the vacation sea-
son. produced good results.
The report of the secretary. which
the agents reports, shows
that the cases of 481 children, thirty
six women and twenty-six men were
and relieved. Three
hundred and seventeen children were
relieved from conditions of general
and eighteen were committed
10 county temporary homes.
In the animal department, S,704 an
mails were relieved from various kinds
Of cruel treatment, and 625 horses,
thirty eight cattle and 972 small ami
mails were humane1y destroyed.
Sixty-one cases were prosecuted and
sixty convictions secured. Warnings
we're given in 5,464 cases, and 1887
persons were advised Investigations
we're made on $3.50 complaints.