Dehorning Cattle.
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The dehorning of cattle in the State of New York is regarded, in the eye of the law, as a surgical operation, and according to the law regulating the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery, can be performed, for compensation, only by duly registered practi* tioners. There is, however, nothing in the law which prohibits a farmer from dehorning his own cattle, neither does it prohibit one farmer from assisting another, or from giving gratuitous aer» vices. Why dehorning cattle should be made a surgical operation is difficult to understand. The implements made in America for debornioe are admirably adapted for the purpose, and would probably be used much more quickly and satisfactorily by one used to the work thae by a veterinary surgeon. Speying cattle ia more a surgical operation than dehorning cattle, and yet any experienced stuekman can perform the operation quite as well, if not better, than a veterinary surgeon, and the same may be said of innoculating cattle for pleuro. The law in New York appears to have been made to render difficult a simple and easily- performed operation.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 107, 2 November 1897, Page 2
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186Dehorning Cattle. Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 107, 2 November 1897, Page 2
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