TAMING A SAVAGE BULL.—NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, ETC. 
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dinary hammer or mallet, after which the knife 
being loosened from the cleft the wedge, like point 
c, which should be made at least a quarter of an 
inch thick, is driven perpendicularly into t e cen¬ 
tre of the stock, and serves to hold open the cleft 
during the operation of setting the scions.' 
Westchester County. 
TAMING A SAVAGE BULL. 
As I heard last week of a farm servant being near¬ 
ly killed by a bull, and as I sometimes hear of val¬ 
uable bulls being killed on account of their being 
too savage to be safe, I have ventured to send you 
The end of the rod a c, at a, fig. 
34, 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 a c takes the 
position of one of the lines in fig. 
36, da or g h, 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 in¬ 
curable. 
Erasmus Galton. 
j Roy. Ag . Soc , Journal. 
In addition to the above, we have found that 
suspending a thick board from the horns in front 
of the head, sufficiently wide to prevent the bull 
looking straight forward, would have the effect of 
taming him; wearing a heavy poke also; but the 
English method, on the whole, seems the safest, 
and is much the neatest in appearance. 
PROFITS OF POULTRY. 
I should be glad to see stated in your paper the 
profits of, and the number of eggs laid by a given 
number of hens for one year—how many bushels 
of grain they consumed—what kind of grain they 
were fed with—how they should be managed and 
treated to get the most eggs—what kinds of fowls 
are best to keep for eggs—which pays the best, 
hens kept for laying or to raise chickens—and 
which is the most profitable, geese or hens. If 
you can not answer my request upon good authori¬ 
ty, please ask correspondents through your paper 
to give you an account of actual experiments. 
H. C. M. 
Miller s Place , Jan. 20 th, 1844. 
The Poland hen is undoubtedly the greatest 
layer. For some excellent articles on the breed, 
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 you will put my letter and its con¬ 
tents into the fire; as I have no doubt you are 
much troubled with useless communications. 
The plan I send, I have used with perfect suc¬ 
cess, with a very savage bull I bought. Any black¬ 
smith can make it; the cost about five shillings: 
and it does not cause any annoyance to the animal 
when he does not try to use his horns. 
b 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 ring in the bull’s nose. 
34. Fig. 35. Fig. 36. 
feed; and management of poultry, see American 
Agriculturist, Vol. I., page 179. Also Yol. II., 
pages 247, 321, and 325. Of the number of eggs, 
quantity of food, &c., in a year, we are unable to 
answer, and will be much obliged if our corres¬ 
pondents will reply to the inquiries of H. C. M. 
NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
In presenting the list of Premiums of the New York 
State Agricultural Society, we submit respectfully a 
few observations upon them. 
1. To write an “ Essay on Farm Management,” &c., 
for which a premium of $20 is offered, would require 
a sizeable volume. We think, therefore, that the title 
of this essay covers too much ground, entirely, and if 
properly treated at full length, would deserve a prize 
of $200. Would not a division of the subject into sev¬ 
eral parts be better? 
2. The “Essay on Rotation of Crops.” Should this 
not also be divided, and a separate premium given for 
the best rotation proper for at least four different kinds 
of soils, viz: the sandy, gravelly, stony, and clayey. 
We are not sure that primary and secondary regions 
should not be divided; especially, where one abounds 
with limestone, and the other does not. It is well 
known to all practical farmers, that a good rotation for 
a clayey soil would be a most miserable one for a 
sandy soil; no one, therefore, could write properly on 
Method of Taming a Savage Bull. 
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