Show A NATIONAL DISGRACE an english correspondent 0 of brad fleets feels called upon as will he m may ay to express strong criticism upon the american method or want of method me thod in handling livestock during the winter season ilia 1113 text la Is found in the statistics of losses among cattle and sheep during the past winter given in the report of the department 0 I 1 agriculture for april according Ac Cordin g to the percentages of the losses attributed tri buted to exposure it should be exposure and starvation the totals amounted to cattle cattie and 2261 sheep in five states and territories the losses of cattle cattie from the causes named were 12 to per cent and the losses of sheep from the same causes 17 to per can cent this is an appalling record and it fully justifies the severe condemnation which w the gentleman gives it Is it possible he asks that inh inhumanity araso ity w which leads to such losses pays and if pay ought it to be permitted p amit the range owners deliberately a doom great numbers of their ml mis erable animals to a cruel death every winter as they know that in the ordinary course of seasons many must be frozen or starved enless they provide v food to bo be given when snow covers the ground and this most of them neglect to do the difficulty of providing shelter for great herds of cattle may easily be imagined but to provide bay is a comparatively easy matter probably few rattle cattle would be killed by frost if they were well fed at any rate where there is natural shelter in the conformation of the country As tor for a beep they are such helpless creatures ia in a enow snow storm that the attention on of shepherds as vi ell as the provision of food and shelter is necessary to save them from wholesale destruction jest ruction surely there are enough humane people in the united states to x put a stop to the continuance of a a of keeping or rather starving stock which cannot be regarded 0 ther than a disgrace to any country in which it Is permitted |