Show C 1 system at of mr william watson explains a tern tem of carni arking which he considers much better than taga tags it consists essentially senti ally of titto tattooing a number inside the ear by means of an instrument p provided ro for the purpose this would be effective in the care of sheep but not so good for cattle tha implement however is ex expensive en sive and yuwa o 0 j a i ahe application some trouble A considerable sider sid erable ablo number of red polled cattle breeders bleeders bre eders in england and this country are r 0 using a system equally effective effect ivo for sheep bep which it seems to me is simpler and for cattle at least much better it consists merely of a system of notches in the ear by which you can make any number you like from one up into tho the thousands any punch will answer that makes a notch or hole large enough to see or feel distinctly it may bo be round square or triangular but the punch cutting a round hole is much the cheapest the rho punch used for putting in tags answers the purpose I 1 do not know who is the author of the system but I 1 presume there is no n 0 patent on it t assuming the animal to be looking toward you the notches with their values are as follows 3 juo jo al io AP f 0 I 1 il 00 THE TILE EARMARKS it will be seen that with a few notches you can indicate any number which can be read by a blind man cannot well 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 sixty three would bo be indicated by CO 60 und 3 or 60 and 3 and so on the notches always figure up by addition of their va values luesa a definite number J mclain smith in breeders bleeders Bre eders gazette |