CRUELTY TO BOBBY CALVES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22194, 22 August 1935, Page 15

CRUELTY TO BOBBY CALVES

Sir, —If this trade is going to continue. it will have to be organised on proper lines, just the same as the fat lambs and fat pig trade. If the meat firms are really concerned with quality and not always quantity, it is in their power to wipe the prp<-ent system out and put the trade on an honourable foot in£. May 1 the following reforms: —First, let each firm who sends caives away be given a number and his calves be tagged with that number: secondly, carriers have scales, and all calves be weighed, and any calf that does not turn the scales at 801b. liveweight be refused; thirdly; calves be collected on any one route twice weekly and the carriers be licensed and the number be limited. Now, let the companies buy these calves on a per lb. basis and pay a bit more per lb. for heavier animals. 1 think in this way the trade in bobby calves will be vastly improved. It at least will be fairer to the calf the farmer and to the laws of common decency. Some )>eople suggest making rangers out of the carriers. Many of the carriers I have seen are certainly not fit to Ik? rangers for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to .Animals. Surely it is not necessary to have to stand rangers over British people to prevent cruelty to dumb animals. tAHM.EE.