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the slaughter and crack its skull with the blow of a hammer, or 

 to load live stock into a crowded box car and transport them for 

 days at a time, often without food or water, and crowded in such 

 a manner that if one gets down it can not get up. It must be 

 remembered that wild animals have not the same delicate nervous 

 system as the human being and consequently does not suffer in a 

 like manner. On the whole taking it by and large the trapper is 

 humane, the very nature of his calling makes him so. Fur bear- 

 ing animals were created for the use and benefit of mankind and 

 should be so considered. 



