Humane Methods Needed in Slaughter Editor. The Farmville Herald, I read with interest. Mr. Ogie vie's letter on the cruelties of the American slaughter houses The House Agriculture Com mittee has scheduled a hearing on humane slaughter bills April 2 I urge readers to write at once to Representative Watkins M. Ab bitt. House Office Building, Wash ington, D. C.. asking him to sup port H. R. 3029 or similar legisla tion to stop the cruelties of the slaughter houses. Mr. Abbitt is a member of the Agriculture Com mittee of the House of Represent atives. This committee has almost power to determine whether Con gress will pass a humane slaugh ter law this year. I am giving some methods list ed by the Humane Society used by most slaughter houses. "In some slaughter houses lambs and calves are jerked off tile floor and hung by one leg. like hogs before being "stuck." In other plants these infant animals are violently thrown to the floor the head is pulled back almost to the shoulders, and the throat cut. The lamb or calfeffes on the floor until it bleeds slowly into uncon sciousness and dies. Last year our slaughter houses did this to about 10.000.000 calves and 90.000.000 lambs," "Cattle are more trouble to the slaughter house than are hogs, lambs, and calves. In most slaughter houses, the animal is first driven into a "knocking" p* n — a pen narrow enough to hold the animal under close control. Along side the pen. on a slight ly raised platform, stands a man who is called a "knocker.” The knocker uses a long handled sledge hammer or axe to knock the animal to the floor. When the big animal is finally ! "immobilized," as the slaughter [men say 'the animals are not al ways unconscious >, it is dragged out of the knocking pen. Then its throat is cut.

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