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THE AMERICAN FARMER. 



CHAIN HANGING CATTLE STANCHION. 



came forth and intelligently saluted the audience. These horses go through a mimic battle, 

 capturing a fort, firing the cannon with their teeth, lying down to avoid the enemy s fire, and 

 at last capturing and passing the hostile flag from one to another. 



Too much indifference respecting the comfort 

 and welfare of animals that are transported in freight 

 cars is manifested by those having the care of them, 

 they being frequently crowded together so closely as 

 to prevent their lying down, or if they chance to 

 get down, to prevent their getting up; so that it is 

 no uncommon sight to find those that have &quot;been 

 trampled to death by their fellows in freight cars, 

 while the poor creatures are kept standing for days 

 together, with but a scanty supply of food or water. 

 Beef or other meat obtained from such sources can 

 not be regarded as fit for human food. The present 

 custom that seems destined to obviate this difficulty, 

 is that of transporting the beef in refrigerator 

 cars from the great Western markets, instead ot 

 sending the animals East and to other sections to be 

 butchered. Cattle are frequently tied in stables in 

 such a manner as to scarcely be able to lie down 

 with any degree of comfort, or to move in an easy 

 manner in any direction. Farmers are generally too indifferent and careless in this respect. 

 Stanchions of some kind that will admit of a free and easy motion of the animals when in 

 the stable are a great improvement on the old method of fastening. The above device, the 

 invention of a Connecticut farmer, seems admirably adapted to obviate all objections of the 

 old time method of fastening. 



How to Kill Animals Humanely. Since it is necessary, whether for food or 

 other reasons, to kill animals, it should be done in the most humane manner possible. For 

 the purpose of imparting instructions as to the best methods of doing this, we give the follow 

 ing directions, recommended by Dr. D. D. Slade, Professor of Zoology, Harvard College, and 

 one of the directors of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 

 These directions are intended to give instruction to those who desire to terminate the exist 

 ence of animals in the most speedy and humane manner, whether such animals are intended 

 for food, or whether they have become useless through age, sickness, or other cause. When 

 we reflect upon the vast number of animals which are put to death in our own country alone, 

 for food, estimated at more than fifty millions every year, not to speak of the thousands that 

 are destroyed for other reasons; and when v/e bear in mind that a great proportion of these 

 animals are put to death, often with the most needless cruelty, simply through ignorance of 

 the proper method of producing speedy death it will be readily admitted that an attempt 

 to enlighten the public in this respect may at least serve to diminish the amount of such 

 cruelty, and indirectly lead to other equally satisfactory results. &quot;While we write more 

 especially for the farmer, who is from circumstances obliged to slaughter his own animals, 

 and for those who are called upon* reluctantly to rid themselves of some fond but disabled 

 pet, we also desire to call the attention of those who pursue the slaughtering of animals as a 

 business to the great necessity of doing their work in the most humane manner possible. To 

 this end, there are certain measures of importance to be kept in view, and to be carried into 

 practice. 



Precautions. The animal to be slaughtered should be conducted to the spot selected 

 as quietly as possible, without the use of goad or club, and everything calculated to alarm him 



