WHAT I KNOW OF FARMING. 



Beded by railroads. The great droves formerly reach- 

 ing the Atlantic seaboard on foot, from Ohio or further 

 West, are now huddled into cars and hurried through 

 in far less time, and with less waste of flesh ; but they 

 reach us fevered, bruised, and every way unwhole- 

 some. Every animal should be turned out to grass, 

 after a railroad journey of more than twelve hours, 

 and left there a full month before he is taken to the 

 slaughter-pen. "We must have many more deaths per 

 annum in this city than if the animals on which we 

 subsist were killed in a condition which rendered them 

 fit for human food. 



Ultimately, our fresh Beef, Mutton and Pork, will 

 come to us from the Prairies in refrigerating cars: 

 each animal having been killed while in perfect health, 

 unfevered and untortured by days of cramped, galled, 

 and thirsty suffering, on the cars. This will leave 

 their offal, including a large portion of their bones, to 

 enrich the fields whence their sustenance was drawn 

 and from which they should never be taken. The cost 

 of transporting the meat, hides, and tallow, in such 

 cars, would be less than that of bringing through the 

 animals on their legs ; while the danger of putrefac- 

 tion might be utterly precluded. 



But to return to Fencing : 



Our growing plants must be preserved from ani- 

 mal ravage ; but it is most unjust to impose the cost 

 of this protection on the growers. Whoever chooses 

 to rear or buy animals must take care that they do 

 not infest and despoil his neighbors. Whoever sees 



