Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1910 — REMEDY FOR KICKING COW [ARTICLE]

REMEDY FOR KICKING COW

Often Tedious and Difficult Task—Arrangement That Is Effective, Harmless and Simple. To cure a kicking cow is often a difficult and tedious task, and, unless some method of restraining them from kicking is adopted, more loss than profit may result through spilt milk. The person milking also runs considerable risk o£ injury tn some form or other. When the cause of-kicking can only be assigned to vice or an acquired bad habit, the following little arrangement will be found useful, and, at the same time, simple, harmless, effective, inexpensive and easily applied: A strap about one inch wide should be buckled round each hind leg a little above the hock, sufficiently tight to compress the hamstring. The animal cannot kick, and if flies are troublesome and cause her to switch her tail, the best plan is to either strap it to her leg or secure it to one of the straps with a piece of cord. Use''the straps every time the animal is milked, and after three weeks or so omit, to ascertain whether a cure has been effected or not. —Irish ’Farming World.