THE DEHORNING OF CATTLE. 



I. DEHORNING BY SNUBBING HEAD TO STANCHION RAIL. II. TREATMENT AFTER 



DEHORNING. III. TO PREVENT HORNS GROWING ON YOUNG CALVES. 



IV. APPLYING THE CAUSTIC. V. AGE WHEN CAUSTICS ARE NOT EFFECTIVE. 



I. Dehorning by Snubbing Head to Stanchion Rail. 



The dehorn inp; of partly developed and adult cattle could be very 

 satisfactorily performed without other apparatus or instrument than a 

 good strong clothes line and a clean, sharp, meat saw or a miter saw with- 



PIG. 4 7. — DEHORNING WITH SAW, COWS HEAD SNUBBED TO STANCHION RAIL. 



out a rigid back — in the hands of a fairly good mechanic. The same 

 simple means for controlling the animal is just as applicable when the 

 dehorning knife is to be used as when the horns are to be removed with the 

 saw. This consists in securing the head of the animal to the horizontal 

 rail or stringpiece which holds the upper ends of the stanchion boards. 

 The animal is put in the stanchion in the usual manner ; then one end of 

 a heavy clothes line is passed around the upper part of the neck and tied 

 in a knot that will not slip, otherwise it will choke the animal. The free 

 end of the rope is now carried between the horns, through the stanchion to 



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