124 TIIK MANAGEMENT AND FI-.EDING OF CATTLE 



of a Stall, food, water, and litter may be given without 

 necessitating the entrance of the attendant into the 

 same. 



AA'hen tied in the stall the bull may be easily man- 

 aged when in service. The female in heat is tied in an 

 adjoining stall. A safe inclosure is made in the rear of 

 the bull in which one person stands. A rope with a snap 

 or spring on one end, and which is kept in place by 

 pulleys overhead, is snapped into the ring in the bull's 

 nose b}' a second person. The person in the inclosure 

 draws on the other end of the rope, which elevates the 

 muzzle of the bull, so that he may be untied with safety. 

 The rope is then slackened so that the bull steps back 

 and serves the cow. The rope is then tightened, which 

 brings the bull into the stall, where he is held in place 

 until tied. When all the fastenings are secure the element 

 of danger is thus entirely eliminated. 



Restoring begetting power in bulls. — Valuable bulls 

 sometimes become impotent. This may result from 

 various causes, as too close confinement, feeding un- 

 suitable food, forced feeding, excessive ser\-ice, par- 

 ticularly at an early age, or from some organic defect 

 in the generative system. The impotency may result 

 from an)' one of these causes, acting singly or from two 

 or more of them acting in conjunction. 



When impotency results from organic derangement 

 of the generative function, it may not be possible to 

 restore it, but when it arises from any of the other 

 causes named, it may sometimes be restored. ]\Iuch 

 will depend on the age at which the power to beget 

 ceased and on the intensity of action in the causes that 

 have led to it. The younger the animal, the less intense 

 the action of these causes; and the shorter the period 

 of the duration of their action, the greater is the hope 

 that the lost powers may be restored, and the shorter 

 is the period that may be necessary in which to accom- 

 plish this. 



