American Veterinary Review, 
FEBRUARY, 1881. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
CASTRATION OF THE COW. 
PAPER READ BEFORE THE NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY SOCIETY. 
By Hubert T. Foote, D.V.S. 
(Continued from page 416.) 
At a cattle ranch in Wyoming Territory, I practiced ovarioto¬ 
my on 169 head of cows this past summer. 
On the 9th of July I operated on 31 head. This day was 
bright and clear, temperature over 90° F., and certainly all that 
could be desired. 
Some 35 head of cows which were as nearly dry as could be 
found, the youngest 18 months old, and the most of them being 
in the neighborhood of 10 years of age, after being selected 
from a large herd that had been gathered in the morning, were 
driven into a corral, or inclosure for holding cattle. I found that 
the cows under two years of age, numbering four, could not be 
operated upon, on account of their vagina being too small to ad¬ 
mit of the passage of one’s hand ; they were, therefore, dismissed. 
