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understand what you require of them while yoked 
together. 
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 sled, let your man hold the foot- 
strap, which run back between the steers, and the 
moment they attempt to run away, he pulls up their 
feet, while you whip them over the head, which will 
stop them immediately, and ina short time 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 frightened into it. 
The lesson in regard to heifers is therefore. perfectly 
plain. Be careful and not hurt or 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 principle 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 defense, and kicks. Handle her 
gently. If she walks off or kicks, pay no attention to 
it, using no loud words or blows. If her teats are sore, 
she is quite liable to do either; and you must have 
patience until they are healed. In our experience, we 
have never found a confirmed kicker in a yard where 
kindness was a characteristic of the family who handled 
the dairy; on the contrary, we have found plenty of 
them where quarreling, loud os and general bad 
-temper prevailed, 
