I9B iLLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



cream, do not see that the best cream cannot be produced by 

 brutes that are in perpetual fear of one another. 



When a man asks me what dehorning means I tell him it 

 means peace and quiet in the dairy, it means success every 

 time, it means fat and butter. 



I have heard many people say, "Why did God put horns 

 on cattle if they are to be cut off? " Why did God put a wart 

 on your face and then allow your mother to have it removed 

 because she thought it was an unnecessary excrescence? Why 

 are some men and women born cross-eyed? The fact is, God 

 has given us our faculties and we are to improve them and our- 

 selves. 



Originally cattle ran where there was no one within reach 

 of them, and often had to defend themselves against marauders. 



I believe in and have insisted on dehorning my cattle e\en 

 though all the powers of the humane society of the city of Chi- 

 cago have been brought to bear upon me, and I will say that I 

 lately met the President of the society at Washington and he 

 was compelled to stand up and endorse dehorning as humane. 



After getting data together, I found that I had reason to be- 

 lieve that two hundred people annually lost their lives from the 

 lack of dehorning, but I have kept adding to the details from all 

 over the country, and now, how many casualties do you think 

 there were in August this year? Forty-three casualties, one a 

 very valuable stallion and the rest humans. Then you put your 

 cows into the stanchions and going along past the others one will 

 give another a horn thrust just forward of the udder, where, as 

 you remember is the head of the foetus and then you wonder 

 why you lose so many calves. One year* I lost twenty-five 

 calves. A thrust like that will certainly kill the foetus, besides 

 the harm it will probably do to the cow. 



Now, I want to show you that it is impossible in dehorning 

 to interfere with the brain. The skull of the animal is composed 

 of two bones. It is true that when the horn is broken off there 

 is intense agony, but not so when cut off. Now, in breaking 

 off the horn, this takes place. The two halves of the head are 



