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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4407, 13 July 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

Some experiments have of late been carried on at the Canadian Experiment Station at Brandon, Men., with a view to discovering whether the operation of dehorni»g was really beneficial to fattening steers. Three lots of grade Shorthorns, containing five head each, were selected for the trial. One lot was dehorned ami tied in stalls, the second dehorned and allowed to ran loose in a pen and the third lot were stalled nndehomed. Rations were the same for all three lots and the feeding period extended over 180 days. ■ The dehorned steers tied in stalls gained altogether 9501 b; the steers dehorned and turned loose in a pen gained 9601 b, and the steers not dehorned at all and tied in stall gained 9681 b. These figures do not show that there is verv much to he rained from the dehorning from the actual flesh-gaining point of view, hut the saving of room and the absence of hooting and poring of the weater animals hy the stronger generally, in practice, show the profit. .Another experiment tried at the Central Station at Ottawa with 22 steers is rpnerted penally irren.'limivp.. Sir J. T. Brunner, M.P., has offered to furnish spectacles to all pupils in the elementary Board and Voluntary School in the Parliamentary Division ■who squint. It seems there are. many children so afflicted.