Show new method of docking lambs found excellent A new method of docking lambs which appears to give excellent excell nt results has been noted recently in several agricultural journals this method consists of cutting off the tails with an emasculator en an instrument probably familiar to most stockmen stoc kmen by sight bight it might be described as a modified shear with a crimped edse edge which severs the arteries in such each a way as to prevent excessive bleeding the claim Is mode made for the emasculator as a docking instrument that it la is handler bandler than the hot iron does docs not cause causa so EO great a briock to the lamb and does not cause as a much loss of blood as an the knife A comp comparison arlson of the three methods recently made in the colorado agricultural college flock showed favorable results from froia the use of the emasculator cu lator lambs docked with either the elfe ov 01 the emasculator were well heated healed when examined two weeks later inter while those docked with the hot iron were not entirely heated healed and a few of these showed infection no weights were token taken of the lambs so BO that no record la Is available on tile tha rate of growth the lambs docked with the knife usually bled more than the others and the stamps had to bo be held for a minute or two to check bleeding |