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the end of the teat and rubbing it a minute ; this will 

 dissolve the scale and cause its removal. 



Kicking cows make serious trouble in a dairy, but a good 

 cow should never be discarded on this account, for the 

 trouble may be cured. Kindness and patience, by which the 

 confidence and affection of the cow are secured, often effect 



Fig. 30.— TIE FOR KICKING COW. 



a permanent cure in cases where the fault has been pro- 

 duced by cruelty and bad management. Sometimes kind- 

 ness is not effective, as where a cow is suffering from sore 

 teats, when she cannot be blamed for kicking. Then it 

 is necessary to tie the leg in.a very simple manner. It is 

 done by the use of a fastening common in Irish and 

 Scotch dairies, and known as a spancel. It consists of a 

 loop of cord about as thick as a common clothes-line, 

 and abont twenty inches in length, having a cross stick 

 fastened at one end. This is shown at figure 30. It is 

 used as follows : One end is looped around one of the 



Fig. 31.— TIE FOR KICKING COW, AS USED. 



cow's legs just above the ankle, and the end with the 

 cross stick is carried around the other leg and the cross 

 stick is passed through the doubled cord, as shown at 

 fiofure 31. The cow cannot lift her les to kick, and the 

 band is very quickly and easily applied and taken off. 

 Such a fastening should be kept in every cow stable to 

 be ready in case of accident, for the quietest cow may 

 kick and upset a pail of milk when the teats are cracked 

 and sore in cold weather, or scratched by briers when 



