AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
Where animals are gradually ■weaned various devices have been used to prevent sucking. Amongst them 13 a collar armed with sharp spike 3, a contrivance which cannot be too severly denounced now that a humane substitution has been introduced. Mr. P. H. Fowler, of Watford, Herts, has been appointed agent of an appliance called " Rice's Patented Calfweaner," which is & ring fixed on the nose of the calf. An officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, directed to report on its use at Watford repository, says:—"l saw the wean or placed on two calves, who were turned into the cow to suck, bat could not. They fed and drank milk from a pail with the weaner on without any inconvenience. The weaner, owing to a patent spring, can be placed upon the nose by anyone. The only donbt I had regarding it at first was j that probably the small size of the span between the two points which hung from the nostrils might irritate the tender skin inaide the nostril; but on feeling the partition between the nostril with my thumb and finger, I found it was loose and sufficiently wide to prevent pressure or I should say the continual moisture in the nostril would prevent inflammation."
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1217, 11 March 1880, Page 3
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214AGRICULTURAL ITEMS. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1217, 11 March 1880, Page 3
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