■. Tests were - made recently at Islington cattle' market (London) of a new air-gun for ■ the painless ■ slaughtering of cattle. A prize of .£IOO has been offered by' tho Council of Justice to Animals for the best killing instrument. . Mr. Ransom's air-gun' weighs about six pounds. The barrel is placed against the head of the animal, a trigger is pulled, and a-bolt is shot with lightning-like - rapidity into the brain and by an ingenious device is drawn equally rapidly back into the barrel. The death of the animal is immediate.:
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 11 December 1912, Page 5
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