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whereby he can sandwich two or three more steers into a 

 car to send to the shambles. 



Cows that are treated gently will, as a general rule, 

 treat each other in like manner. Brass balls on the horns 

 will prevent injury and add much to the looks of a good 

 herd of cows. 



We are told in the good book, that " the Lord created 

 nothing in vain," and no exception is made as to cattle's 

 horns or horses" tails. 



Tuberculosis. — Tuberculosis, the great scare of the 

 present time among dairymen, we believe to be the cause 

 of needless alarm and wanton destruction of valuable 

 stock. It is nothing new, but has existed more or less as 

 long as it has among the human family, showing new 

 names at different periods. We have not forgotten the 

 slaughter of manj^ valuable cattle during the Pluro-Pneu- 

 monia of some thirty odd years ago. We were invited and 

 Avere present at one of those sacrificial offerings. But the 

 autopsies developed nothing strange or alarming and the 

 fad soon died a natural death from exhaustion. 



We do not believe that the slaughter of herds will ever 

 either cure or eradicate the disease. It is virtually trying 

 to kill the dog by cutting off the tail. Would it not display 

 more wisdom to seek the prime cause of these occasional 

 out-breaks, and make a well directed effort to remove that 

 cause. Would it not be better to try to improve the con- 

 ditions in which we find many herds of cows kept in low, 

 damp, dark, villianous smelling and totally unsanitary 

 stables, fed with the most unhealthy and stimulating 

 rations which they can be prevailed upon to devour, with 

 polluted water to drink. 



We remember of visiting a high grade herd of cows, 

 which had not been suffered to go out of their stalls for 

 months, whose hoofs were grown out so that they turned 

 up like skates, and whose bodies could well be likened to a 



