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the Wisconsin bulletin. The numbers in this 

 table correspond to the numbers in connection 

 with the owners' names and name of breed, 

 and the table is quite interesting to a person 

 that wishes to study the feeding question. 



Dehorning. — I have deliberated considerably 

 about the question of dehorning. It has been 

 so much discussed in the agricultural and dairy 

 papers that it seems almost an old story, but I 

 have decided to give a little of my experience. 

 I waited and read and watched for several 

 years, dehorning only the ugly cows, before I 

 became thoroughly convinced that it was best 

 to dehorn my whole herd. I now have no cat- 

 tle with horns except ray registered Jerseys. 

 One reason that I leave their horns is to avoid 

 any possibility of getting them mixed with my 

 grades. I employed a man to dehorn my cows 

 that had dehorned over five thousand head, and 

 he did a good job for me. It would require an 

 expert to detect that they ever had horns. He 

 did the work with a saw and cut a little below 

 the skin, setting the saw to cut a little circular 

 in direction. Cutting below the skin caused 

 some bleeding, but he pulled out the little blood 

 vessels with a pair of small forceps, which 

 made the bleeding cease. I think the fright 

 caused by making the cows fast for the opera- 

 tion gave them more suffering than the act of 

 removing the horns. As fast as dehorned they 



