Show good of earmarks mr william i watson explains a system of earmarking which he ha considers much better than tags it consists essentially senti ally of tattooing a number inside the car by means of an instrument provided for the purpose this would lie be effective effect ivo in tho the care of sheep but not so good for cattle the implement however is expensive and the application some trouble A con number of red polled cattle breeders bleeders bre eders lit in ong copland land and this country are using iving a system equally effective for sheep which it seems to me is simpler ind for cattle lit least much better it boniti eo niti merely of a system of notches in the eat cur liy by which you can make any number you oil like from one up lip into tho the thousands any punch will answer that makes a notch or hole largo large enough to seo or feel distinctly it may inay bo be round square or triangular but the punch cutting a t round bole hol is 13 much tho the cheapest the punch used for putting in ta tags ms answers the purpose I 1 to do riot not krow who is the author ot of the hyster but I 1 presume there is no ito patent on it assuming the animal to be looking toward you the notches with their values ure as follows jt 3 61 20 00 30 L 41 1 0 1 I 1 ty 0 11 60 70 1 10 0 THE rde EkR MARRS jt it will avill be seen that with a few notches you can indicate any number which can bo be read by a blind man iman cannot well bo be removed without defacing the ear and cannot loose suppose you wish to indicate the number fourteen ten three and one make it six hundred and sitty three would be indicated by iw 00 CO 0 and 3 or CO and 3 and so BO on tho the notches not clies always figure up by addition of their values a definite defini to number J mclain smith in breeders bleeders Bre eders gazette |