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Put on heel calks one inch, no toe, to rest and relieve the back tendons from strain. Apply the following liniment at night, after which put on cold-water swabs and let them remain all night: Soap liniment, 8 ounces; tincture iodine, 2 ounces; oil cedar, 4 ounces; sulphuric ether, 2 ounces. Mix and apply once daily. Dehorning. Which is the best way to dehorn cows and calves?
She nodded gaily from the saddle. "Why so sober, old-timer?" "Overwork!" exclaimed Douglas. "Jude, will you come up and help me with the handful of steers I want to dehorn?" "What's the matter with Old Gentlemen's Home?" asked Judith with her impish smile. "They are taken up with reforming each other," replied Douglas; adding more seriously, "they are too old to be much help with the rope, Jude."
"Four of those cows ought to make fine milkers," he said; "they are built for it, long bodies, big bags, milk veins that stand out like crooked welts, light shoulders, slender necks, and lean heads. They are young, too; and if you'll dehorn them, I believe they'll make your thoroughbreds hump themselves to keep up with them at the milk pail.
It means at least three hundred and fifty pounds of butter a year, and in this case the butter means at least thirty cents a pound, or more than $100 a year for each cow. This is all profit, if one wishes to figure it by itself, for the skimmed milk will more than pay for the food and care. But why did you say dehorn the cows?"
The best time to dehorn cows is in the spring, before the fly season starts. It is best not to have a cow too far along in calf before dehorning, as she is very apt to lose her calf. It is also better to dehorn before your cows freshen, because when cows are milking and are dehorned they will go back in their milk a great deal for the first month after the dehorning has taken place.
If you want to be civilized, you got to lasso other people's thoughts people as has went to and fro and has learned life and you got to dehorn them ideas, and tame 'em." Lahoma examined him with new interest. "Are YOU civilized?" Her countenance fell. "Not to no wide extent, but I can ford toler'ble deep streams that would drown you, honey.
"Look to your saddle, Johnny, then come in to breakfast. I've got a few steers I want to dehorn to-day, so you're just in time." The preacher was still at breakfast when old Johnny came in. The two old men stared at each other with unmixed interest. Douglas stood with his back to the stove, a cigarette drooping from his lips, a remote twinkle in his eyes.
Also remember not to use water enough to run the lye away from the button and rub until the skin reddens. Also, look out to keep your end of the potash stick dry or you may dehorn the tips of your fingers. Paralysis During Pregnancy. I have a cow that will freshen in a few days.
Peter Knight, he's awful fond of Judith." Douglas looked at Johnny keenly, his jaw setting as he did so. Was there, he thought, something obvious here, or was it only the half-wit's curiously sharp but confused intuition at work? At any rate, he must know the truth. He could not endure this added uneasiness. "On second thoughts," he said aloud, "I think I'll not dehorn to-day.
In most localities there are men who are well equipped to dehorn cattle, and able to perform this operation for a very moderate fee. It is not advisable to attempt to dehorn a number of adult cattle if the operator is not well equipped for the work.
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