JULY, 1894. 
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EDITORIAL. 
Dishorning in Cattle. This is another important ques¬ 
tion amongst those operations of veterinary surgery, which it 
has been customary to classify among those known as “fashion- 
; tb ‘\ operations. The important part being the action which 
has been taken in some parts of the country in obtaining legis- 
ative action to prevent the performance of the operation. 
. There are several so-called operations of fashion which in 
the opinion of many are justifiable in the sense of rendering the 
domestic animals upon which they are performed more useful 
better adapted to its services to mankind or more productive in 
neir respective qualities and again less dangerous to themselves. 
It is not our object to consider the propriety or the unjusti- 
ncation of these manipulations, and in fact, practically speaking 
our experience on the subject of dishorning is too limited to 
express an opinion, but we have received a letter from one of 
our correspondents which no doubt will throw a certain amount 
ol light on the subject of no little advantage. 
The letter reads as follows : 
Dear Doctor: 
*T tC 7“ ‘° aSk Wh<Sther there be a Iaw a S ainst dishorning cattle or not. I 
ave dishorned some two hundred or so, this last season. The first lot, fourteen in 
number, I was very careful to see if there were any bad results or not. I took the 
temperature before operating and for two days after, and found at no time the slightest 
rise The milk was carefully weighed before and after, they never lost a feed and a 
no t.me ind.cated in any way pain in their heads. I am very favorably Impressed 
wh n ,17 ^ lt i en “ rely ChangeS their disposition, there is no chasing or goring 
when let loose m yard, and they herd together like a flock of sheep. I use the 
