Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-09-05

breeds are those that bring the top
price in the beef markets.
Cattle shipments from Texas
for the remainder Of the year viii
be light as compared with the past
six months.
If any cattle man doubts the
efficacy of good breeding, let him
watch the difference in the way
we'll bred cattle and common stock
sell in the market.
The horns, when quite young,
can easily be prevented from grow
ing by applying to them either
caustic soda, OF one Of the many
preparations mixed for that pur-
pose. The United States depart
ment of Agriculture has issued the
following directions with this OBJ
ject in view: Mix fifty parts
caustice soda, twenty-five parts kerr
osene oil, and twenty-five part of
water. An emulsion is made of
the kerosene and soda by heating
and vigorously stirring, and this
is then dissolved in water. The
mixture should then be placed in
a bottle with a solid rubber cork.
In applying, the calf should not be
over three weeks old, five to
twenty-five days being the proper
age. With scissors clip the hair
around the embryo horn, exposing
a spot about the size of q nickel.
Hold the calf securely and drop
two or three drops of the mixture
upon the horn, and with the end
Of the rubber cork rub it in thor
oughly over the bare spot. Apply
the fluid first to one horn then the
other until each horn has been
gone over three OF four times. The
rubbing should be continued until
the caustic has softened and remov-
ed the hair and surface skin i'm
mediately around the horn. Care
should be taken that the fluid does
not spread over large surface or
run down the sides of the face.
The mixture must be carefully and
thoroughly applied; if used care
lessly, the embryo horns may not
only be killed, but the face of the
calf be disfgured. This method
is not only less cruel to the animal,
but it is said, leaves the head in
better form than when dehorning
is practiced in the old way.
Charles, Goodnight, of Good
night, Texas, cattleman of flarge
experience, and the discoverer Of
the simple process for rejuvenatine
old, played out bulls, making them
seryiceable for many years over
and above their natural period, has
located the cause of "big jaw" in
cattle, and gives his experience to
the Texas Live Stock journal, as
follow; You may say that I have
discovered if used in time, sure
cure for '1umpy" or '1big jaw" in
cattle. This disease never makes
its first appearance on an animal
over four years old-cattle over
this age may be found suffering
with "big jaw" but the incipiency
of the disease will invariably date
back to when the animal was un-
der four years old. 1t is cause by
a failure to shed a tooth at the
proper time. If the tooth causing
the trouble is removed before il
has run on too long, the animal
viii in every circumstance get we'll
1 have cured hundreds of them and
know what I am talking about
You can generally locate the toott
thot is causing the trouble, but
failing TO do so remove two Or ever
three if necessary to insure get
ting the right one. 1t is similal
to what is known as blind tooth IN
horses, and should be treated pref
ty much the same way" Continu
ing Mr.. Goodnight said, "Notwith
standing the opinions of veterinary
surgeons to the contrary, lam pre-
pared to show by actual demon
strations that the much talked o
lumpy jaw is nothing more nor lesI
than tooth that by failing to droI
out at the proper time is causing
its would be successor to grow
backwards and into the jaw bone
and thus setting up an infamma
tion that continues to grow from
bad to worse until It finally kill