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Dishorned Cattle. 
where goi'ing, or “polclhng,” as it is termed, frequently leads to 
partial or total loss of milk. 
The I’ed scores and wounds on the hides of cows bear constant 
witness to the treatment that sort of stock receive at each other’s 
horns. 
In the transit of cattle by rail I find that one or two more 
beasts will go in a truck without their horns than with them, and at 
the same time a polled beast has a better chance, should he get down 
in a truck, of getting on his legs again. 
I have had some correspondence from different parts of the 
country on this subject, and from among it I will add the opinion of 
two friends of great practical experience. 
Mr. Clare Sewell Read, of Honingham Thorpe, Norfolk, says : — 
“ You ask for my experience in winter grazing polled and homed cattle 
in covered yards. In the first place you can stow quite 60 per cent, more 
polled than horned cattle in the same space. We bother our landlords to 
provide us with shelter for our grazing bullocks, and then two humane 
Judges prevent us from making the best use of that shelter. In Norfolk 
we graze a large number of Irish cattle. You pick out thirty on Norwich 
Hill, and possibly these thirty bullocks were bred on thirty different farms 
in Ireland. You turn these strange cattle into a confined space from which 
there is no escape, and all their Celtic animosities are aroused. So after a 
free fight of many weeks the weaker give way to the stronger, and they 
cower in the windy corner of the yard, while the master bullocks eat up all 
the meal and cake that should he theirs. Dishorn the lot, and peace and 
quietude reign supreme, whilst they will feed as happily together as so 
many pigs ! ” 
Mr. Westley Richards, of Ashwell, Rutland, writes; — 
“ In answer to your inquiry about dishorning cattle for grazing purposes, 
I have no he.sitation in saying that dishorning appears to alter the character 
of the cattle ; they rest better and feed better. All the Shorthorns I have 
brought from Ireland the last two or three years have been dishorned. I 
think butchers appear to prefer dishorned cattle, as they are not bruised in 
the same way that horned cattle frequently are. For cattle that have to be 
kept in yards, it is absolutely necessary that they should be dishorned if 
tliey are* to get their proper share of food and shelter.” 
I am. Sir, 
Yours faithfully, 
Albert Pell. 
Nov. 6, 1892. 
ADULTERATION OF MANURES AND 
FEEDING STUFFS. 
On March 11, 1892, a Departmental Committee of the Hoard of 
Agriculture was appointed to inquire into and report upon the 
alleged Adulteration of Artificial Manures, and Fertilisers, and 
Feeding Stuffs used in Agriculture. The Committee consisted 
of the'’Hon. J. S. Cathorne Haidy, M.P. (Chairman), Sir Jacob 
