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death and by injury in transit. The loss 

 from hogs was about 12 per cent. Since 

 1880, as a result of British and Ameri- 

 can supervision of the shipping trade, 

 the loss of cattle by death in transit at 

 sea has been very greatly reduced, 

 amounting to less than 1 per cent. 



Daily attention given stock on ship- 

 board — On a vessel which carried 850 

 head of cattle, 66 head of horses, and 

 320 head of sheep as a part of her cargo, 

 the cattle were watered twice daily, 6 

 A. M. and 4 P. M.„ and not given 

 over a half bucketful each. After each 

 watering they were fed hay. At the be- 

 ginning of the voyage they were fed 



corn on the cob at 11 A. M., but later 

 fed grain twice a day, in the morning 

 and evening. 



Horses were watered four times a day, 

 as they are likely to get feverish. They 

 were fed hay in the morning and bran 

 mash at noon, and after the third or 

 fourth day given oats or corn at noon 

 and hay in the afternoon. 



Sheep were given all the water they 

 wanted and fed twice daily. 



For the first few days at sea the stock 

 look discouraged, but soon get so they 

 eat regularly. The journey seems to be 

 especially hard on sheep, as compared 

 with other stock, yet but few die. 



