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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Sir Sydney H. Waterlow said lie had a reluctance to send a man 
like the defendant to prison, but he must fine him in the full 
penalty of £20, and £o 5s. costs, or in default one month’s 
imprisonment. 
The defendant said he must serve his month, for he could not 
pay the fine. — Standard. 
THE LATE MOWING MATCH AT BARTLE— ALLEGED 
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 
On the 7th ult. a mowing match took place at Bartle, Wood- 
plumton, for £50 a side, the competing machines being those of 
Messrs. Picksley, Sims and Co., of Bedford Leigh, near Manchester ; 
and Mr. A. C. Bamlett, Thirsk, Yorkshire. Each machine, drawn 
by two horses, was to mow ten statute acres of grass against time. 
The machine of Messrs. Picksley, Sims and Co. did the work in 
1 1 hours 58 minutes, and that of Mr. Bamlett in 1 2 hours 3 1 minutes ; 
and the judges therefore decided in favour of the first-mentioned 
implement. However, one of the horses employed by Messrs. 
Picksley, Sims and Co. died five or six days after the trial, and the 
other appeared to be in such agony that it was shot. These cir- 
cumstances having come to the knowledge of Mr. Peter Hayward, 
of Bradford, an inspector in the employ of the Society for the Pre- 
vention of Cruelty to Animals, he made certain inquiries into the 
matter, and the result of his representations to the society in 
London was that the whole of the persons immediately concerned 
in the match, or who took an active part in it, were summoned for 
a breach of the Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The 
parties connected with the machine of Messrs. Picksley, Sims, and 
Co., were all included in one charge, namely, Mr. Joseph Wilding, 
managing director for the company ; Mr. Alexander Macgregor, 
their engineer; Mr. Charles Cryer, their Preston agent; James 
Johnson, the driver of the horses; and the judges, Messrs. Henry 
Neild, farmer, Grange, Worsley, near Manchester ; Christopher 
Richmond, farmer, Thornton, near Liverpool ; and William Clarke, 
farmer, Bispham, near Ormskirk. In another charge were included 
those persons connected with the machine of Mr. Bamlett: — 
Mr. Charles Greenside, his engineer; Mr. T. Standing, his Preston 
agent ; and Mr. William Martin, farmer, who drove the horses. 
The first mentioned charge was heard on Saturday, Aug. 18, at the 
County petty sessions, before Messrs. Peter Catterall (chairman) ; 
W. Howitt, J. B. Booth, D. Irving, and A. Simpson. 
Mr. Harris, barrister, of London, instructed by Mr. Hayward, was 
counsel for the prosecution ; and Mr. J. Addison, instructed by 
Messrs. R. and W. Ascroft, appeared for all the defendants, except 
Mr. Clarke, who conducted his own defence. 
Mr. Harris, in opening the case, said that the facts of the case 
were extremely revolting. Four horses were employed to draw two 
mowing machines; and he was bound to say, without exaggeration. 
