274 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



confines any animal in any place and fails to supply the same during 

 such confinement with a sufficient quantity of good, wholesome food and 

 w-ater, or carries in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, any animal in 

 a cruel or inhuman manner, or who keeps cows or other animals in any 

 inclosure without wholesome exercise and change of air, or feeds cows 

 on food that produces impure or unwholesome milk, or abandons to die any 

 old, maimed, sick, infirm or diseased animal, or works the same, or, being 

 a person or corporation engaged in transporting live stock, detains such 

 stock in railroad cars, or in compartments for a longer continuous period 

 than twenty-four hours after the same are so placed, either within or 

 beyond this state, without supplying the same with necessary food, 

 water and attention, or permits such stock to be so crowded together 

 as to overlie, crush, wound or kill each other, shall be fined not more 

 than two hundred nor less than five dollars, or imprisoned not more than 

 sixty days, or both. 



[Dehorning of cattle.] Provided, that nothing herein contained 

 shall be construed to prevent the dehorning of cattle. 



[Disposition of fines collected.] And that all fines collected for 

 violations of this section shall be paid to the society or association for 

 the prevention of cruelty to animals, if any such society or association 

 is organized in such county, township, village or city where such viola- 

 tion occurred. 



(6951-1) [Docking tail of horse; penalty.] Whoever, being the 

 owner or having the custody, control or possession of any horse, mare, 

 gelding, foal or filly, or who shall be an agent or employe of any such 

 owner or person, having the custody, control or possession of any horse, 

 mare, gelding, foal or filly, shall cut off or cause to be cut off or amputated 

 the skin, flesh, muscles, bone and integuments of the dock or tail of any 

 such horse, mare, gelding, foal or filly, in order to shorten the natural 

 length or proportions of such dock or tail, or shall pull out or cause to 

 be pulled out the hairs of the foretop, mane or withers of any such 

 horse, mare, gelding, foal or filly, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined, for the first offense 

 not less thkn twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, 

 or be imprisoned in the county jail or workhouse not exceeding six 

 months, or both, at the discretion of the court ; and for any subsequent 

 offense under this act, such person on conviction, shall be punished by a 

 fine not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars, and by imprisonment 

 in the county jail or workhouse for the period of one year. 



[Lawful docking.] Provided, that in case it shall be necessary 

 in oase of any accident, malformation or disease, which may affect the 

 dock or. tail of any horse, mare, gelding, foal or filly, to cut or amputate 

 the same, such cutting or amputation shall be deemed lawful. 



SEC. 6952. [Dog-fighting, cock-fighting, etc c ; who deemed aid- 

 ers and abettors.] Whoever engages in or is employed at cock-fight- 

 ing, dog-fighting, bear-baiting, pitting one animal against another of 

 the same or of a different kind, or any simitar cruelty to animals, or 

 receives money for the admission of any person to any place kept for 

 any such purpose, or uses, trains, or possesses a dog or other -animal for 

 the purpose of seizing, detaining, or maltreating, any domestic animal, 

 shall be fined not more than one hundred and fifty nor less than five 



