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Show I LIVE STOCK CONSERVATION I ,1s it not time wo had live stock conservation, conser-vation, from the standpoint of humanity? Should it not bo made a crime to allow Ijiei'ds to starve? Ob ,Ve read of five hundred horses near (fTi Falls, Idaho, turned sr.t ixyfj'eefce ! . Lnd die. la it Christian to treat our helpers help-ers in that way? I I We read of hundreds of head of fine j 'wattle rustling in snow two feet deep in j IVyoming, without food, rcK:(r or water. $hjit humane? ! uMN read of thousands of cheep being Ht to die on the range with no attempt. vb get them food. Does it not spoil our taste for mutton? The past three dry seasons in the west left hundreds of herds and flocks without i winter range. Flockmasters knew this in advance. Well to do and conscientious live stock owners made ef orts to ship their stock to j other ranges. Others deliberately let j them starve. ? Others made sarifices to ship in corn and hay and yet there was enormous loss .d suffering. Are we a merciful Chris-' "ian people? Ought there not to be a national law re-l re-l quiring owners of herds to make provision prov-ision foi winter feed and watering? A I bond should be required. I' What moral right have large live stock fawners to cause poor dumb brutes intol-ierable intol-ierable suffering? While they live in wealth and comfort? What right has the government to al-, al-, low millions of sheep and cattle and horses hors-es to die from exposure? And we pay douWfe prices for eat? Ttfo other government in the world allows al-lows such cruelty. Is it any wonder the Jostof living is high? Can we escape IjMthe wrath of justice? Col. E. Hofer in iWie Manufacture and Industrial News Vi .ureau. |