AN EXCELLENT TECHERING DEVICE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2307, 29 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN EXCELLENT TECHERING DEVICE.

A. H. Crosby writes to tho rural New Yorker ;is follows:—" Subscriber" iiskn me " how old my bull is, and hmv 1 fasten the chain.". He is ]fi months ...Id, and has more than his usual " temper;" and here is the " bully" device by which 1 hold him —Put a light strap' around the horns; midway between them fasten a apirabpringof just sullicietit tension to support the weight of the chain or rope by which the bull is tethered; on the lower end of the spring fasten a ring a size larger than the ring in the bull's nose, have a snap on the end of the tether, chain or rope; put it through tho nose ring and snap it in the ring suspendod by tho spring. Your bull will.be us secure us a bull can be. .When ho pulls on the chain the spring ..dves, and lets the upper ring ' against the nose ring, and the bull stop's at once.. The beauty of this arrangement i», that tho bull is practically tethered by his nose ring without being compelled to drag alieavy chain on ope by his nose, thereby in course of time having his nose drawn out of shape. .' : 1 first used a piece of rubber'in place of tho spring, on the •trap •' it'did just as vr ell, though. it was : not so desirable.... In the ordinary way of . tethering a bull, the chain or rope is. run through the nose ring, and then fastened ,to tho strap'around the horns; then with the. bull facing the tethering pin backs off the full length of the chain, and holds his ■ head out,..with his face parallel, to tho directly, with'no'stniin whatever on the.nose ring.. He will soon learn : t]iia^;trick,..and,-then. one cairiieyjer;ieersafe. ; v-After.,iny. bull had. broken -his' chain,'■' I' invented:; the ttbove. : and although it does not.require, a "boss genuis!';io;d();iti;itci!rbiiily is;.tho' thing for,t|ie gmui k'uC . It is ,'rie'vcr :s;ife: ; 'to lead.rbuJ} without a staff. 1.-, ?,C T