To the Editor of the "Mobrh-Chimn Dany News"
Si—Your correspondent INFORMED whose second letter appeared in your issue of Friday, April 29, admits that. the pigs being brought by steamer from Yangtze ports to Shanghai are mot given water while on the steamers, a journey of some twelve hours, and this after possibly several days without water before being taken aboard, He says that on two ocvisions when a captain of a vessel carrying pigs gave them water the mortality amongst the pigs was higher than usual, and for this reason the compradores and owners objected to watering the pigs while on the steamers.
Of course, if pigs nearly dying of thirst are given access to unlimited quantities of water they are liable to over indulge, with disastrous consequences to themselves. I would offer the practical suggestion that each of the compartments into which Ixrormep says the space allotted for the accommodation of pigs is divided should be supplied with a wooden trough for water during the voyage from the Yangtze port to Shanghai—enough water to slake the thirst of the pigs, but not enough to allow of their drinking too much.
It should be easy enough' for the SM.C. to make the compradores and pig dealers agree to this by refusing them landing permits for the pig cargoes if they fail to do so.
It is satisfactory to note that according to Inrormen the regulations governing accommodation as required by the S.M.C. are complied with on most ships. It would seem, then, if the problem of watering the pigs en route without the evil effects resulting from over drinking could be solved, something definite in amelioration of the sufferings of the animals will have been accomplished. id ARTHUR DE C. SOWERBY. Shanghai, Apr. 30.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.