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over, it would be foolish to bleed a cow to death for pig feed, 
when pigs are very fond of blood. 
We were called to see a Jersey heifer, suffering from tuber¬ 
cular dysentery, where treatment did no good. She was sold 
to a butcher for $2 for pig feed, but a quiet examination of that 
pig pen a few days later failed to show any bones ; pigs had 
eaten them also, I suppose. 
A farmer living a mile or two from our city has a slaughter 
house on his farm. He was awakened one night by one of our 
butchers and asked for the use of this house as the steer they 
were driving was so fat and tired they could not get it farther. 
Next morning the farmer went to see if the butcher had 
cleaned up the slaughter house, and there was the head of the 
worst case of big jaw we ever saw in our life ; several discharo-- 
ing sores, the teeth had fallen out; and plainly showed that the 
animal was really very fat, at least about the head, but probably 
was so poor in the body that it was truly tired. 
One of our butchers killed a cow heavy in calf; the calf 
would probably have been born in a few days. The meat of 
that cow was sold, as was the calf dressed for veal, and when 
we spoke about this latter the man seemed surprised and 
informed me that they always did this, when the calf was 
advanced far enough. 
We could give you records of cases of cows having cancer, 
erysipelas, broken legs, and we don’t know what else, all of 
which were undoubtedly sold over the counter as first-class 
meat, but so butchered and managed that it would be almost 
impossible to obtain a conviction, unless one personally went to 
considerable expense to hire a private watchman or a detective. 
One of the dairies that furnished our city with its milk 
supply had several cases of consumption among its cattle ; the 
main bull of the herd dying with this disease, while tubercular 
mammitis was very common. Still this milk brought the 
highest market price ; and we must confess that the dairy itself 
was a model of cleanliness. 
Now, we cannot say that all these cases would be detrimental 
