Show PLAN GIVEN TO if DEHORN CATTLE trong strong clothesline and clean sharp meat saw are among tools required leans MEANS TO CONTROL ANIMAL necessary that rope be held b As distant so that it may be slackened in cae case of emergency where horn horns should be cut prepared by the united states depart mant of agriculture tito dehorning deli orning of cattle can be cry satisfactorily performed without oilier other epp apparatus aratus or instruments than a sd end strong clothesline and u clean sharp buat so SUM or a miter SAW with a rigid back the same simple menus for controlling on trolling the animal la Is just as eppli cable table when dc dehorning horning are to be as when hen tile horns are to he be removed with fie to saw the head of the animal Is secured to the horizon tal rail or stringer which holds the lie upper ends of the stanchion boards the animal Is put in the stanchion in the usual ni manner anner then one end of a heavy clothesline la 14 passed around the tile upper part of the nick and tied in tit a knot no that hilll not slip other otherwise NiRe it will choke lie like animal the free end ena if nf lie the rope in 1 now carried between the horns lorns through the stanchion to tile aront up and over the horizontal t head of steer showing result of proper dehorning rail then down underneath he the net ne and up anil and over the top of the he iran eblon rail to an assistant who should hold it firmly now open the stanchion tan chlon allol allowing ng the animal to withdraw its head then leaping keeping the tile rope tight pass it once around the muzzle up and over the stan stanchion chlon roll rail and through to the front again to the hands of the assistant who lie should stand gland 3 or 4 feet in front of the animal and hold the rope firmly but prepared pared to release it hen told to do to so by the operator the animal Is s no now ready for the dehorning operation rope held by assistant it ie Is ni cosgary nu essary that the rope be held by an assistant as in the ebent of the struggling during the opera tion 0 40 o as to itself off its feet or if there appears to be danger longer of its choking the rope nil mi be slackened promptly at lie the word of the operator operate r end and the animal partly tC cased this homeer ho weier weer Is ramly necessary for ns As noon foon as the head Is secured the tile oper titor should be nady standing at the right sli Jio uhler of the tile an animal livial his a siw tw and proceed to saw oft on first the tile right and then the left hon it 1 a good plan before commencing tho real rent ork to experiment an animal it ilic matter of control b tying the lien I 1 to the stanchion rill as described if the stanchion rail roll Is 14 too wide mide to pervist of properly scenting a tho lie lou fotr r fart art as well ell as lis the upper part of the animals lend tend the turn of tho the rope around the tile muzzie muzzle may be or nittel and anti the he last lap of the rope carried around the stan stanchion chlon rail to the front and to the he hands of the assistant care should hould be taken that the rope pass pas each time over the neck of the animal 7 improper Ot dehorning horning he the stanchion rail between the ras in auch such a way that it will not elfere with the work of the saw where to t cut the horn horns he horns horn should be severed from carter to a halt inch below where skin joins the base of the horn ling ing from the th back toward the front nt alf jhc thc cut Is made tande too high an irrig wr r gnarly cn th of horn la Is very t to t follow it will be sn soon that the sint int of ot onion union or of the ekin skin aad horn iles in different cattle hence there a beno rule of measurement ex pt as the eye eje becomes trained to see ie point OB ot line no a which the cut j aoud uld be irold in rn the beef breeda breeds illy y one half inch of skin all nil around i usually taken off ot with the horn |