Archive image from page 232 of The dairyman's manual; a practical. The dairyman's manual; a practical treatise on the dairy dairymansmanualp01stew Year: 1888 Fig. 30.—TIE FOB KICKING COW. a permanent cure in cases where the fault has been pro- duced by cruelty and bad management. Sometimes kind- ness is not effective, as where a cow is suffering from sore teats, when she cannot be blamed for kicking. Then it is necessary to tie the leg in a very simple manner. It is done by the use of a fastening common in Irish and Scotch dairies, and known as a spancel. It consists of a loop of cord about
Archive image from page 232 of The dairyman's manual; a practical. The dairyman's manual; a practical treatise on the dairy dairymansmanualp01stew Year: 1888 Fig. 30.—TIE FOB KICKING COW. a permanent cure in cases where the fault has been pro- duced by cruelty and bad management. Sometimes kind- ness is not effective, as where a cow is suffering from sore teats, when she cannot be blamed for kicking. Then it is necessary to tie the leg in a very simple manner. It is done by the use of a fastening common in Irish and Scotch dairies, and known as a spancel. It consists of a loop of cord about as thick as a common clothes-line, and about twenty inches in length, having a cross stick fastened at one end. This is shown at figure 30. It is used as follows : One end is looped around one of the Fig. 31.—TIE FOE KICKING COW, AS USED. cow's legs just above the ankle, and the end with the cross stick is carried around the other leg and the cross stick is passed through the doubled cord, as shown at figure 31. The cow cannot lift her leg to kick, and the band is very quickly and easily applied and taken off. Such a fastening should be kept in every cow stable to be ready in case of accident, for the quietest cow may kick and upset of milk Avhen the teats are cracked and sore in cold weather, or scratched by briers when
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