. The Canadian farmer's manual of agriculture : the principles and practice of mixed husbandry, as adapted to Canadian soils and climate. Agriculture. Manual of Agriculture. 837. Fia, 26. in a from the middle under the belly, ending with a ring. Make a smooth ash pole as thick as a hay-fork handle,having a little curve, with a snap at one end, which is secured to the bit of chain on the halter. The other end passes between her fore legs and through the ring which is suspended from the surcingle. The pole should be long enough to allow her to extend her neck and head without pulling it out of t
. The Canadian farmer's manual of agriculture : the principles and practice of mixed husbandry, as adapted to Canadian soils and climate. Agriculture. Manual of Agriculture. 837. Fia, 26. in a from the middle under the belly, ending with a ring. Make a smooth ash pole as thick as a hay-fork handle,having a little curve, with a snap at one end, which is secured to the bit of chain on the halter. The other end passes between her fore legs and through the ring which is suspended from the surcingle. The pole should be long enough to allow her to extend her neck and head without pulling it out of the ring; but as a further precau- tion, a strip of leather may be wound around the lower end, and nailed so as to form a slight knob too large to pass through the ring. The harness does not interfere with grazing, lying down or getting up, but she cannot suck herself. " T. J. ; Another farmer says :— " Any one who has carefully noticed a calf while sucking has observed that the tongue is extended an inch more or less beyond the front teeth, to envelop the teat on the under side. Now, any device which will render it impossible for the cow thus to extend the tongue beyond the front teeth, it is obvious, will make it im- possible for the cow to take her own milk ; and this the bridle bit will do most effectually, if secured in the mouth by a small strap buckled over the head, back of the horns, as the back part of the tongue is so thick that the tongue cannot be extended under the bridle bit while the mouth is closed, which it must be nearly in the act of sucking. The bit does not in the least interfere with the operations of eating or chewing the cud, or of licking herself, as this act is performed with the mouth open sufficiently wide to allow the tongue to be extended out of the mouth under the ; A good, simple, and cheap arrangement to prevent cows from sucking themselves, or each other, may be made by making a halter as follows : Take two or three
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