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open yard, until they fully understand what you require 

 of them yoked together. 



This course of training does not excite, while it conveys 

 the idea most clearly of what is required, and will enable 

 the trainer to accomplish more in a given time than has 

 yet been done by any other system of managing steers. 

 If your steers have learned to run away from you, which 

 is a common result of the ordinary method of training, 

 put on the rope and strap, to the foot. If hitched to a 

 wagon, or stone load, let your man hold the foot strap, 

 which runs back between the steers, and the moment 

 they attempt to run, let him pull up the feet, while you 

 whip over the head, which will stop them immediately, and 

 will very soon break up the habit. 



KICKING COWS. 

 It is natural for the cow to stand while being milked. 

 Consequently, the heifer knows nothing about kicking 

 until hurt, or frigliteued into it. The lesson in regard to 

 heifers is therefore perfectly plain. Be careful and not 

 hurt nor frighten them. If, by accident, you should, and 

 they kick, do not punish them for it. Kindness and 

 gentle handling is the only remedy. If your cow kicks, 

 let your reasoning for the cause be based upon the princi- 

 ple that she never kicked until she was injured, and the 

 remedy will at once suggest itself. No cow was ever 

 broken of kicking by striking with the stool or other 

 weapon. This practice only puts the cow on her guard, 

 and, as you come near her with the stool, she uses nature's 

 defence and kicks. Handle her gently. If she walks off 

 or kicks, pay no attention to it, using no loud words nor 

 blows. If her teats are sore, she is quite liable to do 



