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all the money is collected and each dealer gets a receipt

for the amount he pays.

1912

Q:-

Does the dealer pay so much a head a day?

1912

A: No, hepaya weekly dealers whom we know and whom we trust. 1991- There is a charge of so much a head per day for the animals?

1919

1914

A:

No, Sir. So much a head slaughtered.

9:- Well, if a man keeps an animal there over two weeks does he 1974

pay so much a day for the feed ?

A: No,

Sir. He pays the same as for 24 hours.

Who pays the food ?

A:-

91-

1915

The butchera. We provide water and scavenging, that is all.

If a dealer brings Cattle down from up country and puts then, 1916 into a slaughter house, does he sell them to a butcher at

once ?

Am

Q:-

A2

He does that in the Depot.

Does he pay therefore the feed ? What arrangements are made'f')

for the animals being properly fed ?

The dealer feeds them as long as they are in his possession

and immodiately they pass into the butcher's hands he foods

them.

All the animals are properly fed ?

19,8 21-

At-

Yes.

1519

Q:-

If they were not properly fed would you know it ?

1918

1919

As- Yes, It is to the man's own interest to feed his animals. I

have been down there for ten years and I have never had

occasion to more than speak to a dealer. Sometimes I have

had to ask them for food but whenever I brought the matter

to their knowledge I have never had scossion to do so again.

Shelton Hooper:- Does the shroff count the animals when they come to the

1920

1920

Depot ?

A:- Na, Bir, the tallyman counts then.

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