CATTLE-DRIVING.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."
SIR,—I venture to send you an Irish Times with an account on p. 10 on sworn testimony of cattle-driving in the County Kildare, and of the damage done to the cattle. Mr. Gwynn evidently knows nothing of store-cattle and their habits. Store-cattle graze or ruminate unceasingly from dawn till dark at all times of the year ; but at this period, when herbage on the primest lands is scanty, they find it hard to "hold their own" and keep up condition with uninterrupted browsing. Judge then of the injury it must be for them to be driven from their pastures without food, water, or rest for twenty-four, or even twelve, hours, and hustled along the highways. During a wild stampede of this kind cattle lose in one day the benefit of at least a week's grazing.—I am,
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