. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. io6 The Country Gentleman s Magazine AN IMPROVEMENT IN CATTLE-TYING. IN our number for July, page 20, we gave a notice of a method for confining cattle by stanchions. We this week furnish engravings of an improved plan of tying cattle, which a correspondent of an American contemporary says has been at- tended with very successful results in his own experience. Stanchions, there is no doubt, save much labour in tying, but they cause not a little trouble in currying, inasmuch as the animal is unable to move its head f
. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. io6 The Country Gentleman s Magazine AN IMPROVEMENT IN CATTLE-TYING. IN our number for July, page 20, we gave a notice of a method for confining cattle by stanchions. We this week furnish engravings of an improved plan of tying cattle, which a correspondent of an American contemporary says has been at- tended with very successful results in his own experience. Stanchions, there is no doubt, save much labour in tying, but they cause not a little trouble in currying, inasmuch as the animal is unable to move its head for the purpose of alleviating any irritation which. any pedigree^ and they are as peaked at both ends as anybody's cattle, but I like them for milk and butter. The old way of slipping the knotted end of a rope into a half knot in the bight (fig. i) will hold a creature by the horns if the horns are big, or if the knot is drawn snugly to its place, and the rope be a limber one; but such a plan is a constant care, and I believe I have got a better way. Half-inch rope of jute is cheap, and although the fibre is tender, yet it will wear a spell Fig. I.—Old way of Tying. may take place at any part of its body, and the attendant is often compelled to rub all over the cow, which, if its head had full free- dom of action, could be obviated. " As my double stall is rather narrow," says the corre- spondent, " tying by the neck would not do, for the two-year-old heifer would gouge the yearhng, unless she were fastened so short as to knock against the manger with an awkward cramp in lying down and getting up. So we must tie by the horns. And the bug horns of these Jerseys are not much to tie to. At present I have some cheap Jerseys, without. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, S. Mar
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