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The Country Gentleman s Magazine 



AN IMPROVEMENT IN CATTLE-TYING. 



IN our number for July, page 20, 

 we gave a notice of a method for 

 confining cattle by stanchions. We this 

 week furnish engravings of an improved plan 

 of tying cattle, which a correspondent of an 

 American contemporary says has been at- 

 tended with very successful results in his own 

 experience. Stanchions, there is no doubt, 

 save much labour in tying, but they cause 

 not a little trouble in currying, inasmuch as the 

 animal is unable to move its head for the 

 purpose of alleviating any irritation which 



any pedigree^ and they are as peaked at both 

 ends as anybody's cattle, but I like them for 

 milk and butter. The old way of slipping 

 the knotted end of a rope into a half knot in 

 the bight (fig. i) will hold a creature by the 

 horns if the horns are big, or if the knot is 

 drawn snugly to its place, and the rope be a 

 limber one ; but such a plan is a constant 

 care, and I believe I have got a better way. 

 Half-inch rope of jute is cheap, and although 

 the fibre is tender, yet it will wear a spell 



Fig. I.— Old way of Tying. 



may take place at any part of its body, and 

 the attendant is often compelled to rub all 

 over the cow, which, if its head had full free- 

 dom of action, could be obviated. " As my 

 double stall is rather narrow," says the corre- 

 spondent, " tying by the neck would not do, 

 for the two-year-old heifer would gouge the 

 yearhng, unless she were fastened so short as 

 to knock against the manger with an awkward 

 cramp in lying down and getting up. So we 

 must tie by the horns. And the bug horns 

 of these Jerseys are not much to tie to. At 

 present I have some cheap Jerseys, without 



Fig. 2. — Improved way of Tying. 



under cover, and a poor rope gives warning 

 when it is ready to break, as. poor iron does 



not. 



It takes 5>^ or 6 feet of rope to tie a cow 

 my way. There must be a staple of ^th inch 

 iron, 15 inches long, bolted askew, about 

 y^ of an inch distance, to the plank front of 

 the manger, as seen at a, fig. 2. Up and 

 down upon this staple slides a 2-inch ring of 

 14; inch iron (/-), to which one end of the 

 rope is spliced with a >^-inch thimble {c) in 

 the eye of the splice. The first thing to do 

 is to make a loop {d, fig 2) 2 or 2)4 feet from 



