CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1295, 25 November 1911, Page 8

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

DAIRY COWS AT SHOWS. "I sco you newspaper people have b?en taking up the matter of cruelty to cows through their not being niilkcd. Come alonjr here and I'll show you another case." Snch was tie grouting which a well known farmer gave a pressman at the Taranaki 'show. The farmer letl the way to the Ayrshire section and pointed to "a cow from whose teats the milk was oozing. The udder was distended abnormally, and the animr.l was restless and uncomfortable, and probably in pain. It is a difficult matter to say how this all too common practice can be overcame unless it is by insisting that all exhibits shall bo milked in the presoncß ot show officials the morninjr of the judging, but judges who agree that some- reform is necessary do not think this would be altogether satisfactory, as in judging it is desirable that tht udder should )jo full, and milking under the same conditions the night before is also out of tho question, as many of the exhibits do not reach the show ground until the morning of the judging. "I can't say what is the bost way out," said a judge at Taranaki, "but this sort of thing (indicating the Ayrshire in question) is doing a tremendous amount of harm to dairy stock." The question is one which the A. and P. Association might well grapple with.