FUR FARM SLAUGHTER METHODS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sur,—Your correspondents have raised a point of considerable importance to humane societies—namely, the method of slaughter employed in fur farms in this country.
I again confirm that Bulletin 1151 of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, dated 1923, actually advises the breeder when killing a fox to place his foot on its chest " and crush out the life." This method was of course known to breeders in this country and this Society learnt that some contemplated adopting it. Immediate steps were taken to warn breeders that the Scottish S.P.C.A. would take steps to test in Court the legality of the method. The Society's Inspectors were in- structed to pay more frequent visits to fur farms in their respective areas, and so fru; as the twenty-five counties of Scotland are concerned, this system of inspection is main- tained and the use of chloroform and a lethal box is the method universally employed in fur farming establishments, of which there are some sixteen throughout Scotland. Doubtless sister societies have taken similar steps in their areas.
LYNDESAY G. LANG WILL, Secretary, Scottish Society for the Prevention 19 Melville Street, Edinburgh. of Cruelty to Animals.
[We should like to repeat our offer to give a free page advertisement in the Spectator to the establishment which is the first to obtain, and sell as such; furs from humanely killed animals.—En. Spectator.]
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