INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF LIVE STOCK. 
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weather of the spring thawed it out. At one point the water froze 
in December, and although no more water was available until March, 
over 1,000 cars of stock were handled there and were supposed to 
have been watered. It was, in fact, a greater hardship to the ani- 
mals to have them unloaded under such conditions as then existed 
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than to carry them on to their destinations. The provision in the 
new law requiring that when live stock are unloaded it shall be into 
properly equipped pens has in a large measure overcome these abuses. 
The old law required the carriers to unload the animals at the end 
of every 28 hours; the present law permits the extension of the time 
to 36 hours upon the written request of the owner or person in cus- 
tody of the shipment. This privilege generally is insisted on by the 
transportation companies, the argument being advanced that it en- 
