CATTLE, TRAINING AND WORKING. 
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An intelligent driver will accojnplisli what he wants without undue 
severity ; his voice and signs are the potent powers. In starting a heavy 
load each ox is called by name, however large the team be. They under- 
eland that they arc to place themselves in position for action ; every 
chain is straightened, every muscle is brought into tension ; they get well 
■ into the yokes, and at the signal all start together. With such a team 
the load must come. 
So with cows. The training of the heifer is begun in calfhood : she 
foams to rely entirely upon the master. They know his voice either ia 
the yard or field, and come clustering about him, expecting some “tid-bit,”i 
or at least a kindly word or caress. When the first calf is dropped thero 
is no fear of the master ; he may take it and do with it what he will- 
only fond solicitude is shown. Let a stranger come about, and instantly 
this solicitude is changed to fear. If a person who has beaten them or 
otherwise ill-used them approaches, the fear i3 intensified, and if he offer; 
to handle the calf, a battle for the mastery is likely to ensue. 
We have never had any trouble in teaching a heifer to stand to bin 
milked. If the udder is tender, as in nine cases out of ten it will be, they 
will gently submit to the means used for relief and seem grateful for tb/s 
effort. If strange heifers are to bo operated on, the first thing to teach 
them is, that you are a friend; whatever the timo it takes, whether half 
an hour or half a day, do not intermit the effort until the animal is sub- 
dued. If refractory it is better that the heifer or cow be tied up at once 
end kept there until entirely quiet and without fear. Then fully half the 
work is done and the subsequent work is only a question of time and cf 
patience. 
Kanaglng a Kicking Cow. 
We once subdued an unusually refractory and kicking cow, by having 
tier held firmly by the head while we seized the teats firmly one with each 
hand. There was no attempt to milk. The lesson to be given was that 
she could do no injury by lucking. It took three-quarters of an hour to 
accomplish tho object. When she kicked the grasp was tightened ; the 
Wrist was brought back firmly against the leg above the hock. When she 
ceased kicking the grasp was relaxed, and the motion of milking was per- 
formed so far as pulling gently on the teats when she kicked, or rather 
attempted to do so by bringing her foot forward. She soon found it waa 
invariably brought down again nearly in its proper position in the rear of 
its mate. In the end she gave up and submitted to be milked. One 
new lesson she had to learn, to stand without bolding. This was accom- 
plished by following hep about until she was content to stand, which she 
