58 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
“‘ scheduled.” Fortunate it is for us we are free from restrictions, 
and long may we continue to be so. It is only those persons who 
have had experience of the workings of that measure who can under- 
stand what a bane it is to a country, or how it interferes in its trade. 
Exhibitors of live stock have frequently failed to come up to their 
usual standard, and orders to slaughter cattle at home markets have 
interfered with their prices. | Under the Act, every time an animal 
is put into a cattle car, the car has to he disinfected before it is 
allowed to be used again ; the floor has to be washed out, all offal 
removed, and the car has to receive a coating of lime white-wash ; 
every pen used for loading, unloading, or holding cattle, be the time 
ever so short, has to be white-washed. To move animals by road, 
permission has to be obtained from the Local Authorities, who have 
plenty of inspectors always on the look out for a breach of the law. 
The best illustration of the care devoted to cattle in our province, 
is afforded in the large byres in this city for fattening cattle for the 
English market. There are at present 4,000 cattle distributed over 
six large feeding stables, or byres, each of which contains about 600 
head ; and there are also a large number of pigs. Each byre is one 
open space, there are no partitions, the cattle stand close together from 
40 to 50 in a row; between each row are 2 troughs separated by a 
footway for the attendant to pass along, the troughs are sufficiently 
far apart to prevent the animals from horning each other. At the 
rear a similar arrangement receives the manure, urine, etc., these 
troughs are about 3 ft. wide, 3 ins. deep at the top, and 9 ins. at the 
outfall. A simply arranged system of sluices lets the distillery wash 
flow into the troughs. Overhead is a large loft for hay, having open- 
ings directly over each line of troughs, through these the hay is 
dropped down directly to the animals. The “wash” is supplied 
directly from the distillery which is about 1,100 yards distant; it 
comes boiling hot, and is received in large vats holding 30,000 gallons 
each ; it does not cool very much and is fed to the animals hot ; each 
animal receives 20 gallons on the average, per diem. The stalls are 
carefully scraped out three times a day, all manure and urine is drawn 
into the troughs outside the buildings, from which it is run off twice 
a day. The atmosphere of the byres is wonderfully sweet. 
After the manure has been drawn into the outer troughs it is 
allowed to settle, and all solid matter is pitchforked on to a planked 
roadway, the liquid is further screened by being passed through 
