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SI'AVLVG COWS W 13, llongnkokako, writes —"Y(ra ritv 1 .. somel sound practical advice to the farmer, ?i7 r! (i Oiptet), a great many-more, ' \ would liLo some 10 spaying cows—wheto, i . to make. the ißci6ion-j)i the womb, hd\v tc. remove tho ovanes, how to locate then. A etc bpaying is, I think, the best Vriy \ to get tho duffortl out of our- itiilkiiig" , herdfi, but lerv few knjw how, although 1 ! think . tne operation is siiiiplc •• - .i 11 \\.? • -mJ S +A C 1 U } v °rth mukiiig a desperate',at, if chmmato the duftets. , -And spaying - a! i ® « c &r i • sometimes ratherj suiC :/. denly A\o have heard of men in New Zealand who profess to, bo experts* at ißpaymfr,' >■ ana it any should' commumcate'with''' k us ?J ; conseftuenee: bf, your letter, wo will' for- '• uard you their .iiamei and addresses.' 'Spay- ' ing is hot an, opkhtion that yo\i sh6Wd stumble » into experimentally. •It it obvitfusly V" submits tho cows to. 6ome: agony;, .and fronv" '' repoits the operation is not always dona ascptioally, v so, thiii . the death > rata is ! •. siuerable. . ihe ovaries are usually reachedthrough a largo opening made in the cotv's UanL Ihfl methods followed' by some rough operators is to cut open.the cow's side with ' a pocket-knife, insert a hand, fed tbr tho ovaries, and remove them. In i\ew Zealand apparently there, is no law to protect, a poor, old unprofitable i. dumb .; cow ironl a. , farmer. L\vbo - >.wants i| to • practice,spaying, :but in Jijigland ; 'siib- f 1 - ■ ]Cct to. a. pfcnalty as* cruelty; unless done l bv. a skilled properly-quailed operator.- "You would,- no doubt,; wish the /matter' atten<}eiL' : ■ to with the least, possible .cruelty, and,- tit) best course would be> to engage a dually g4oil i veterinary ■ 6urgeoiv- Or i a 1 if one can bfe ; found. In- Stephen's "Boot of I tho ..Farm," Vol. IL, page 29,"lnay*be seen *• s tho following reference to the kattor":- v /'Tho same writer" (a .votorinary'surgeAn) v •" proves fully; thepossibility 6f 6MU<irig,per.- :■> manency 6f milk in the cow. This ,' .by simply' spaying ,the;c6w. ita/groper jtirne after calving; > The' operation consists itf.'6iiiW : .: ting into the flank of the cow and. by the introduction of'tho hhild- destroying 'the ,crartea ; of tho womb. ; hei full stature, so that it may-bciierformfti at. any , age after four, -yeaTS.! She -/should^ - be at the flush of her .Milk,, ft&.'the future' !. quantity yielded depends' :OU that. 'ftMcj'• is -V afforded by her at the time of the opefftiiio'n.' .'Tho operation may be performed in ten'days: .after calving, but tho most pr.oper.titae 'appears to lib three] or ;four 1 wefiks ; 'After./'. The cow should be in' hifch health, the operation : may' kill her ;of milk; The only . preparatibn' required' for " safety in the operation is th&t. the cow should'; : fast twelve or;fourteeii.- $he bo taken away immediately bef6fe v tion. The wound ;-he4ls in .a.'fortnight -"Or.,*; three weeks.; or; three days .after—' tho operation the milk may tity,, but it regains its'. fiieasure :..in : about r a--' woek, and that mark t for the remainder of the animal'6iife,"or as long As the ago or.-tho'animaltp.ernjits the.isocretion of tho'fluid, from some aeoideufcal .as an attack of'ft Severe is. stopped. But; even ,then,-; the ; > animal may easily .be,fattened.' , l.'" ; , i;;^ i V.;''^ i 1 The 1 , advantages claimed...for. .'Spayitig. iaire ,tho following':—(l)"'Rettdoring the secretion of milk, : and seeuring a 'niueii;..;.!. greater ' quantity wit Mii a givon -time' of ~,'! ovory. year; (2) improving the quality. Qt, the :j: milk;. (3) removing ; tho uncertainties ] ,an4' i; ; dangers, incidental to breeding ; (4) ,ihcreas-v ' ing the disposition', to fatten at'anyj' tira'e (5) improving the quality of. the.mcatl,.:_ : ....;
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 95, 15 January 1908, Page 2
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