296 THE MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING OF CATTLE 



When cattle are driven to market, they should be 

 prepared for the journey, should it exceed a mile or two, 

 in much the same way as though they were to be 

 shipped by rail. In warm weather the journey should 

 be made at night when the market is distant. For such 

 marketing, what is known as the " stock wagon " may 

 be used with much ad\'antage in carrying prime animals 

 in small lots to such markets. 



Care while in transit. — When the journey does not 

 exceed 28 hours, the attendant can do but little until the 

 cattle reach their destination. They are given no addi- 

 tional food or water, as there is no opportunity for this 

 after they are loaded into the car. It may happen some- 

 times that an animal may get down in a car, in which 

 position it may get bruised by the tramping of other 

 animals. Should this happen, there is opportunity at 

 wayside stations to look the cattle over and to prod 

 any that are down until they rise. The presence of 

 horns adds much to the liability to injury during ship- 

 ment. 



W'hen the cattle are more than 28 hours on the 

 road, the federal law, as it stands at present, calls for 

 the unloading, feeding, and watering of cattle at certain 

 places provided by the railroad companies for such use. 

 This is an instance in which a well-meaning law may 

 work hardship without eflecting the purpose sought. 

 Humane men who have had experience in shipping cat- 

 tle are quite generally of the opinion that when cattle 

 can be made to reach the market within 36 hours of the 

 time of loading, they will be less harmed if they are 

 not unloaded on the way. There is liability to more 

 or less of jamming during the loading and unloading, 

 and it is also true that animals will eat and drink but 

 little during a short stay at a feeding place. The delay 

 consequent upon such unloading and the labor incurred 

 are, in a great measure, without adequate results. Such 

 unloading, howe\'er, when more than 36 hours in transit, 



