Dishorning Cattle.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 409, 9 October 1889, Page 3

Dishorning Cattle.

In the Queen's Bench Division in May last, the Lord Chief Justice and Mr Justice Hawkins delivered an elaborate written judgment in the case of Ford v. Wiley, in condemnation of the practice of dishorning cattle. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had summoned a Norfolk farmer for practising this operation on thirty-two animals. The local justices refused to convict, stating that the farmer honestly believed the process to be for the good of the animals and the public. Their Lordships now declared in the strongest possible terms the illegality of tho practice. The Lord Chief Justice said he could see no evidence of the necessity for the operation. It had been discontinued in Norfolk for thirty years. It was unknown in the rest of England and Scotland; except in throe counties, and ib was practised in Ireland only for the purpose of deceiving purchasers as to the age of animals sold. Mr Justice Hawkins also condemned the practice at length, and the appeal was allowed, with costs.

Guest — And you are the proprietor of this popular hotel, are you ? Why, I was here last summer and I don'b think you owned it then, did you ? Proprietor— Oh, no ; I was one of the waiters, though.