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XVI. — Proposed Method of Taming a Savage Bull. 
By Erasmus Galton. 
Siu, — As I heard last week of a farm -servant being nearly killed by a 
bull, and as I sometimes hear of valuable bulls being killed on account 
of their being too savage to be safe, I have vent\ired to send you a plan 
to prevent bulls from injuring persons or animals of any kind. But, in 
case you consider this plan of too trivial a nature to be of general use, 
I request vou will put my letter and its contents into the fire ; as I have 
no doubt yo\i are much troubled with useless communications. 
The plan I send f have used, with perfect success, with a very savage 
bull I bought. Any blacksmith can make it ; the cost about five shil- 
lings : and it does not cause any annoyance to the animal when he does 
not try to use his horns. 
6 is a cap screwed on the end of the horn ; a c is an iron rod hanging 
on a pivot in the cap — a chain from it leads to a rmg in the bull's nose. 
The end of the rod ac, at a, fig. 1, ought to be in a line from the root 
of the horn to the end of it ; so that, in attempting to touch anything 
with his horn, the point a comes in contact with it, when of course the 
rod ac takes the position of one of the lines in fig. 2, de or g li. and 
punishes the bull by forcing up his nose. 
I turned a three-year-old savage bull with a cow that was bulling, 
and also turned a yearling bull with them ; in a few minutes the young 
bull found that he was master, and punished the old one very severely : 
and I was shortly after able to take off the irons, and as long as I had 
him he never offered to hurt a person, although when I bought him he 
had tossed several people, and was sold to me as incurable. 
I have, &c., 
Erasmus Galton. 
Loxton Manor House, near Cross, 
Somersetshire, June 13, 1843. 
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