THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES 
We believe it to be our duty — 
TO STOP 
1 • The beating of animals. 
2. Overloading. 
3. Overdriving. 
4. Underfeeding. 
5. Driving galled and disabled animals. 
G. Tying calves’ and sheep’s legs. 
T. Cruelties on railroad stock-trains. 
8. Overloading horse-cars. 
9. Neglect of shelter for animals. 
10. Plucking live fowls. 
11. Dog-fights. 
12. Vivisection without anaesthetics. 
13. The use of tight check-reins. 
14. Bleeding calves. 
15. Clipping dogs’ ears and tails. 
16. Bagging cows. 
TO INTRODUCE 
17. Better roads and pavements. 
18. Better methods of slaughtering. 
19. Better methods of horse-shoeing. 
20. Improved cattle-cars. 
21. Drinking fountains. 
OF FAITH OF THE SOCIETY. 
22. Better laws in every State. 
23. Our paper, 11 Our Dumb Animals,’ into sabbath 
schools and among children. 
TO INDUCE 
24. Children to be humane. 
25. Teachers to teach kindness to animals. 
26. Clergymen to preach it. 
27. Authors to write it. 
28. Editors to keep it before the people. 
29. Drivers and trainers of horses to try kindness. 
30. Owners of animals to feed regularly. 
31. Men and boys to protect birds and birds’ nests. 
32. Owners to take better care of stock. 
33. Every one not to sell old family horses when 
worn out or disabled. 
34. All persons to report to us or our agents all cases 
of cruelty. 
35. People everywhere to form societies. 
36. Men to give money to forward the cause. 
37. Ladies to interest themselves in the work. 
38. People to appreciate the intelligence and virtues 
of animals. 
39. And, generally, to make men, women, and chil¬ 
dren better, because more humane. 
OTTE YEAJE/S WOThKI. 
Work of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for the year ending March 25,1873, 
The Society published 
12,000 copies of INIr. Angell’s es^ay on Stock Transportation. 
30,000 essays on the C'heck-Rein. 
50,000 small pamphlets, distributed at the “ Jub’lee ” and at Agricultural Fairs. 
130,000 copies of its paper “ Our Dumb Animals.” 
6,000 copies of the Statute on Cruelty to Animals. 
Several hundred circulars on robbing birds’ nests, shooting-matches, and to butchers and drovers in re- 
o-ard to shelter for cattle. 
It sent 
1,000 copies of an essay on Horse-Shoeing to the blacksmiths of the State. 
Placed bound copies of “ Our Dumb Animals” in leading Hotels and Steamboats. 
Issued circulars to the Steam Railroads in the United States on the evils of Stock Transportation. 
Distributed two hundred prizes to scholars in forty Boston schools, for compositions on “ Kindness to 
Animals; ” also prizes at the New England Agricultural Fair, for various improvements to lessen the suffer¬ 
ing of animals, and for essays on slaughtering, and insect-eating birds, and offered additional prizes to the 
schools throughout the State. 
An agent was employed to travel over the railroads in New England, and west to Chicago, investigating 
stock transportation and slaughtering. 
An “ Animals’ Home ” was established at Boston Highlands. 
Check-Rein Signs were erected at the foot of steep hills. 
Drinking-Troughs were located at several points. 
Hundreds of old and disabled horses were killed, hundreds of others withdrawn from work, and other hun¬ 
dreds provided with better shelter, by our direction. 
About three hundred persons were prosecuted for cruelty to animals, and more than two thousand cases 
were investigated. 
Police-stations in Boston and other cities were provided with hammers and hoods for killing horses. 
Several other States were induced, by correspondence, and the distribution cf documents, to pass laws 
and form societies. . 
A National Law was secured in Congress, to prevent cruelties in the transportation of cattle, and an effort 
was made to prevent, by statute, the overloading of horse-cars. 
OFFICE OF THE SOCIETY, 
46 Washington. Street, Boston. 
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