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Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 41

You know that no two people in tho world have finger-tips that arc exactly alike. The arrangement of the little ridges and furrows of the skin differs in every case; hence finger-prints are the most certain method of identification (hat is known. It has been found that a very similar method can he used for identifying cattle, but in this case the nose is used as the testing spot. The wrinkles of the tip of tho nose are neyer duplicated in different animals. Nose-prints are made bv applying a thick ink to the soft skin between tho nostrils, and then taking an impression upon a piece of soft, absorbent paper. They supply an invaluable method of sorting out valuable cattle when, as sometimes happens, they become mixed up after a show. No one could safely steal a pedigree animal whose nose-print had been taken and “filed,” for it would be impossible for the thief to remove tho means of identification.