. Activities handbook. Veterinary medicine. This mode of transportation was attended with much cruelty. As reported from several sources in 1871: "Cars are terribly over- crowded, and animals are carried great dis- tances without food or ; . . "Cattle trains yield the road to most others, and pass hours on sidings; the animals are without food or water, and often with insufficient ventila- tion in summer or shelter in winter; they are jolted off their legs and then goaded till they struggle up, for they cannot be permitted to lie down; they thus arrive at destination tramp
. Activities handbook. Veterinary medicine. This mode of transportation was attended with much cruelty. As reported from several sources in 1871: "Cars are terribly over- crowded, and animals are carried great dis- tances without food or ; . . "Cattle trains yield the road to most others, and pass hours on sidings; the animals are without food or water, and often with insufficient ventila- tion in summer or shelter in winter; they are jolted off their legs and then goaded till they struggle up, for they cannot be permitted to lie down; they thus arrive at destination trampled upon, torn by each others' horns, bruised, bleeding; having in fact suffered all that ani- mals can suffer and live. The whole system of cattle transportation in the United States as at present conducted is an outrage on the first principles of ; A monotonously deadening repetition of these practices and a mounting public clamor culminated in the Act of June 29, 1906. This is essentially a law to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit interstate. It prohibits the confinement of animals m a car for a period longer than 28 consecutive hours without un- loading them in a humane manner into prop- erly equipped pens for rest, water, and feeding for a period of at least 5 hours. In some in- stances animals may be fed and watered with- out unloading them into pens, provided ade- quate space is available for rest in the cars. And in some cases written request, accidental causes, or acts of nature, which cannot be an- ticipated or avoided by the exercise of due dili- gence and foresight, may excuse continuous confinement for 36 hours or longer. Although the law is applicable only to railroad and wa- ter shipments, attempts have been made to ap- ply its humane principles to motortruck ship- ments as well. The 28-Hour Law does not provide for the issuance of regulations; thus, its administra- tion is governed by the language of the law itself and Court decisions sub
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