Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1898 — To Tell a Cow’s Age. [ARTICLE]

To Tell a Cow’s Age.

The way to tell a cow’s age is by an Inspection of her horns. Up to the age of two, the horn is uniformly smooth from the root to the tip. At the age of two, a ring or thick material grows at the base of each horn, forming a 'sort of notch, and an additional ring or notch is added every year afterwards. To find the age, therefore, count the rings and add two. In the case of a bull, the first ring does not appear until he is five years old, but phe annual ring appears after that. Though now and again irregularities occur, yet ..on the whole this rule is reliable. Fraudulent dealers occasionally tile down those notches or rings, but close inspection is sufficient to expose the fraud.