A DAY AT ADDINGTON SALEYARDS
was a :Visitor to Addington , sale -onWednesdiiy: last I .was inter-
are selling each animal In the pen, if they sell them singly/ keep prodding them.with these poles in the tenderest place they can find. The way that;the beasts mill round the. pen to try to escape this prodding, proves ■ that they are being hurt - One person knocks, a horse down with a'stick, and it dies, and he is fined'and justly so, but men are allowed at-Addington sale to practise cruelty on animals unnecessarily. I think it is done unwittingly, but it is done. • _ v.lh the dairy cattle-section I saw a few nice opes, but the bulk of the offering appeared to be made up of the derelicts of the province,, and was no credit to the saleyards. One painful feature 1 noticed was supposedly recently calved cows, with milk dripping from their teats, a sign that their milking bad been postponed, while the calves 1 were confined in pens away. from • h “‘- Yo “’-. ete - ; DON qulx. : . June 3, 1941.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23351, 10 June 1941, Page 10
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