1 1 6 ANIMALS IN FAMINE 



Australia where the raising of stock, whether sheep, 

 cattle, or horses, is carried on without much regard to 

 the limits set by famine in years of frost or drought. 

 The creatures are multiplied without regard to famine 

 periods, and no reserve of food is kept to meet these. 

 Natural laws are left to work in bad times, and this 

 1 natural law ' is death by famine. Consequently, at 

 times we hear of multitudes of starving horses on the 

 ranches of Oregon ; and in Australia during a drought, 

 or in Argentina after protracted drought or cold, sheep 

 and cattle die by tens of thousands by the most linger- 

 ing of deaths. There is something amiss here in the 

 relations between man and beast which cannot be 

 justified even on * business ' grounds. 



