Dehorning Cattle.
v The process of dehorning cattle, although found necessary under certain conditions, must be always a cruel one. Happily a method has been discovered which will obviate in future recourse to the method. It came about in this way. Mr H. McLean, of Bay Road, having had a good deal of trouble with his horned bulls getting entangled in wire fences or becoming unmanageable, resolved to try upon a young one the prerentitive effect of caustic potash. Taking the calf at the age of three or four days, when the horns were mere excrescences, he applied, with. the point of a knife, a small quantity of the substance to each — moistening it at the same time with a drop of warm water. The caustic operated from the moment, and te-day the calf — now six months old, shows no signs of horns, and might be taken for a born " poley." The solvent is inexpensive — a sixpence worth would suffice for a hundred or two, but an essential condition is that it must be kept in a perfectly dry state until the time of using.— Southland News.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 258, 6 May 1896, Page 2
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187Dehorning Cattle. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 258, 6 May 1896, Page 2
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