Show IS DEHORNING CRUEL Inquiries arc aro frequently tr received as asto asto asto to whether the operation of or dehorning is i s very cr painful and nOli whether it may milay mu munot not be classed ged as ns cruelty to animals Those who have hae hud had hJ 1 an ex ax experience perince In dehorning d appear to lo agree that hat t the pain Induced by b the operation has haB been greatly really overestimated as a careful c observation haa lusu shown that shrinkage s In the time Iod of milk as C welt well welts as a s of oC butter bult t fat Ca t following the dehorn dehorning InS ing I ng of cows cow Is temporary and Insignificant Ins IS On the other hand the worry pain and a nd cruelty often otten inflicted by b cattle upon their mates mate before beCoT beIng deprived s I 1 a I AND D t Li b CUIlING of or their horns are aro ro much more to be I considered and not infrequently result in Iii the of oC a valuable animal A A neighbor on all un art adjoining farm ann to I that owned by the writer r a few fl W yearn ago UjO lost logt two to good much cowe cOtI In Inn ono one winter through their being dla dIH I by the time horns of ot barnyard mates while out for lie He dehorned his entile herd almost Immediately aft act afterward erward ernard The Increased cd safety of oC the animals much more than compensates les for or any an loss lo of beauty from the tho removal of horns horn The horns should be severed from Crom a quarter to a bait Inch below whore where tho the skin joins till the bare blEe of the time horn cutting tromp from the th back toward the thc front frunt If I tho ho cut III Is made too high an Irrer ular tiler gnarly Charly growth of horn Is In h very CI apt to follow Collow It will ill be inc s seen jon gan that lint the tho lie point of oC union I of or the tho skin shin and nd horn varies Vl in different cattle there thare I can call ho bo no rule of measurement except pt a the tho ey cys becomes s trained to Ice ace tho the point or line at which HIP flue th cut should hould be he mado madl In the th lh beef brer br ei js fully fUll half Inch one of nil 1111 around Is usually taken oft off with the horn 1 T b Li Jordan a farmer armr living south lad of Arcadia La hns has raised railed nomo Jom especially e lIne fine corn comm Some Somo stalks grew gc seven car ear Ho He le stated that butt he rained O bushels h ls of this kind of O corn on five ncr acres san an of or fifty bu to 0 the tho acre 1 I 7 t t |