TO END SUFFERING
THOUSANDS OF CATTLE SHOT SEQUEL TO AMERICAN DROUGHT
. : : V "NEW. YORK, July 20. (Received July 27, at 10 p.m.) Cowboy firing squads ~jn Texas are shooting cattle at the'rate of over 1000 a day to end (the- animals’ torture from thirst and starvation Over 61,000 have already been killed and it is feared that it may be necessary owing to the drought to destroy 400,000 of the State’s herd of 7,000,000 beef and dairy cattle.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22326, 28 July 1934, Page 13
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