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KICKING COWS.

The Ohio Farmer gives the following remarks in re kicking cows :—" When ever you feel that you are losing your temper, let go of the teat, and get quietly up and set your bucket away. Go out in the yard and get some one to pump while you hold your head undqjr the spout. A cow seems to possess a strange «n I duplicate nature. If treased with firmness, she immediately responds with uniform intelligent good behaviour. If she is treated with fondness one day and abused the next, if she is allowed one day to take any stall she likes and come into the stable when she gtts ready, and the next day is run into the stable with a stick and pulled out of two or three stalls until she geti into the one you wish her in, she will be contrary enough to run you crazy. Have you never heard a mother who has been absent from her nursing child for several hours complain that her breast was painful and tender ? This is tho condition of the cow when she ernes up to be milked. Her udder is not only tender, but it seems in some way connected with her nervous organisation, which makes her slightly sensitive to pain and fear. A cow should receive the same uniformly firm treatment every day of her life, and her habits soon conform to the daily routine. Tho complaints of kicking cows generally come from farmers who own but two or three cows, and net from those who make a business of handling them. There are, I suppose occasional confirmed kickers, who have no business in i.ny respectable herd and that should be turned into beef immedipte^."

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Temuka Leader, Issue 37, 2 March 1880, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
289

KICKING COWS. Temuka Leader, Issue 37, 2 March 1880, Page 2

KICKING COWS. Temuka Leader, Issue 37, 2 March 1880, Page 2

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