VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
173 
Witness— Death might follow, as the cow must have suffered 
great pain. After a cow has given birth to a calf it should 
be allowed to remain a few hours, and, when a cow has shown 
symptoms that it is about to calve, it should be allowed to 
remain till the birth has taken place. To do otherwise would 
be unsafe, both to the cow and its young. A cow requires 
more attendance at the time of parturition than any other 
animal. It was decidedly wrong to remove the cow not de- 
livered, as her sufferings would be increased. 
In answer to Mr . Field , solicitor, who attended for the 
defendant. 
Professor Spooner said, that he had all his life paid great 
attention to the habits of domesticated animals, and that 
previously to being engaged at the Veterinary College he had 
directed his practice to cows. 
Mr. G. Waters , veterinary surgeon, York Street, Bryanston 
Square, corroborated the evidence of Professor Spooner. 
Mr. Field — Do you know that it is the practice to drive a 
cow out a day or two before it calves, and that it frequently 
calves on its way to market ? 
Witness — Yes ; but it is very improper. When a cow is 
about to calve it should be kept quiet, and have nourishing 
food. 
Mr. Harry Daws , veterinary surgeon, Gloucester Place, also 
corroborated the above evidence. 
Mr. Field , for the defence, said, he should produce evidence 
to show that it was oftentimes the case that cows were re- 
moved to market from a farm just as they were about to calve, 
that they calved on the high road, and that there was a cart 
behind to receive the calf. It was thought that it did no 
harm to the cows to drive them a distance just before they 
calved. He examined the following witnesses : 
Joseph Barnes said, he had been a drover all his life, and 
had attended nearly all the markets in the country. He 
knew that what Mr. Spooner had stated was wrong. Driving 
a cow a distance before it calved would ease the birth of the 
calf. Even if there were appearances of a birth it would be 
better to drive it. 
By Mr. Forster — I have taken many from Leyton when 
they were down calving. I have had, perhaps, as many as 
fifty in a drove, thirty of which might be down calving. 
Directly a cow calves the calf is placed in a cart, and the cow 
is driven on. This happens all along the road, and the cows 
travel as well as if they had not calved at all. (Sensation in 
court ) 
Mr. Broughton remarked that the whole tenour of the wit- 
