142 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



I saw a sign at a side gate, — "No Admis- 

 sion" so I drove in and went back of the 

 distillery, and there, in a barren filthy lot, 

 with a big high fence around it, were seven 

 hundred steers, receiving their final fatten- 

 ing from the mash of the distillery before 

 being slaughtered. 



The cattlemen raise the cattle and give 

 them a healthy constitution ; then send them 

 to the distillery for a few weeks ' fattening. 

 The cattlemen and the distillery divide be- 

 tween them the value of the extra amount 

 of weight which the cattle talie on from the 

 distillery refuse. An attendant tells me 

 that some steers die refusing to eat the 

 mash, but when once they get the taste, they 

 are ravenous and crazy for it. 



About 98% of these steers were lying 

 around dosing, in a drunken stupor. 2% 

 were staggering around in filth. Anyone 

 who saw them in their pitiable condition 

 would be loath to eat their flesh. 



I learn that 50% of all the Kentucky 

 high-grade cattle that come to our city and 

 export markets, go through the distillery 

 fattening process. 



