. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. 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.
. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. 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. Fig. 2.—Improved way of Tying. under cover, and a poor rope gives warning when it is ready to break, iron does not. It takes 5>^ or 6 feet of rope to tie a cow my way. There must be a staple of ^th inch iron, 15 inches long, bolted askew, about y^ of an inch distance, to the plank front of the manger, as seen at a, fig. 2. Up and down upon this staple slides a 2-inch ring of 14; inch iron (/-), to which one end of the rope is spliced with a >^-inch thimble {c) in the eye of the splice. The first thing to do is to make a loop {d, fig 2) 2 or 2)4 feet from. 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
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