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Show DABS-? a FACD HARD WORK WAY TO TAME UNRULY BULL All Viciousness Eliminated in Short Order. By FRED M. HAIQ, Dalrymnn North Carolina Caro-lina Statu College. WNU Service. Bulls kept in small pens or stalls soon become vicious and unruly and do not stay in the best breeding condition. con-dition. Neither is It wise to keep the animals in the pasture with the cows. Usually they become actually dangerous. danger-ous. At Vancehoro the other day, however, how-ever, I found a man who had solved the problem of handling an unruly bull to good advantage. This farmer owed a bull that was getting more vicious ench day. Finally, when the owner's patience tiad about become exhausted und he was ready to sell the animal for meat, he decided to make a yoke and put the bull to work. After about two weeks of training, the bull was well broken and now works every dny. The owner said he had even used the animal In logging and thnt he was stronger than any mule on the farm. After a few weeks of hard work, the bull lost all signs of viciousness. This man not only kept a valuable animal but also got an extra dividend from the labor performed. The bull got plenty of exercise, as he was placed in the pasture each night It is essential In these days of low farm profits that only sires from high-producing high-producing cows should be used. Sometimes Some-times such sires get mean before the owner knows the record of the daughter daugh-ter cows, and it often happens that a valuable bull Is sold for beef before his true value has become known. No bull should be sent to the butcher Just because he is hard to manage. Work out some suitable plan for controlling him. Give him plenty of exercise and green grass and study a system of management which will correct any tendency to viciousness. Do not keep a scrub bull because he is gentle and don't kill a good, purebred bull because he is mean. |