200 



off at that point there will be little or no bleeding. You will 

 find if you try to do this work with a common saw that you 

 will want a proper tool, such as I have here, and you can get it 

 of the Dairy World, and I want to say, that when the mechanics 

 wanted the price put up because it was a new thing I said as the 

 farmer's friend, "No, it will be $1.00 and no more." 

 I am very much obliged to you for you attention. 



H. H. Haaf. 



A DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE DEHORNING 

 QUESTION. 



Prof. T. W alley, of Edinburg: 



The National British Veterinary Association strongly disap- 

 proves of the indiscriminate practice of dehorning, and to bring 

 out the argument on both sides of the question we give room to 

 the address of Prof. Walley, before the meeting at which the 

 resolution on the snbject was passed. Prof. Walley's address 

 is as follows: 



The subject of dehorning cattle has, equally with that of 

 overcharging the udder, attracted a large amount of attention 

 of late years, and this is probably due to the fact that the prac- 

 tice is much extended. 



I shall consider it in the same order as that adopted in refer- 

 ence to overstocking. 



i. Dehorning is practiced in the vast majority of cases 

 ostensibly for the purpose of enabling feeders to put a larger 

 number of animals together in a limited space than it would 

 otherwise accommodate, and its adoption is said to have been 

 co-expensive with the introduction of court or or shed-feeding, 

 and this argument is of much greater weight in some districts 

 than is any argument that can possibly be used in favor of 

 overstocking the udder, but, as I shall show, the exigences of 

 court-feeding do not warrant the infliction of such gross cruelty 

 as is sometimes practiced under the aegis of such an excuse, and 

 all who are conversant with the subject will know that court- 



