USING THE BULL AS A POWER PLANT.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14729, 6 August 1921, Page 7

USING THE BULL AS A POWER PLANT.

Bulla are not naturally vicious. 'They are naturally possessed of great strength, a lot of surplus energy and, if they are not given a .chance to work off some of that energy in legitimate ways, they will .start to use it in getting into trouble. If a bull is given regular exercise *nd enough of it, he ‘will seldom if V ever become vicious. There are jjnany ways of exercising the bull that involve no expenditure of time, perhaps the best is a strongly fenced hull paddock that affords some pasturage and in the paddock ,a big, block of wood, a heavy oak keg or some such object that the bull can keep himself busy with. Where it Is not convenient to have a paddock, .it may be easy to run an overhead wire across the barnyard, snap a .Chain into a ring on the wire, and the ring on the bull’s nose, and let him run up and down the yard. •There are ways, however, or exercising the bull that may be actually profitable, On the farm of the late Henry Glendenning, the Jersey bull has for years separated all the milk from the big dairy herd. A small treadmill stands beside the dairy room, and twice a day the bull treads the mill while the milk is being separated. It has been no trouble to teach the various bulls owned to walk on the treadmill. They like it. A few year* ago we visited Mr. Fred. iGoble, a prominent dairy farmer in ■Oxford. Co., Ont., and found that he had done the Glendenning plan one better. His big Holstein bull, an Animal weighing around a ton, was running a treadmill that milked the cows as well as separated the milk. The power from the treadmill was found to -be very satisfactory for running the milking machine and the bull was kept in excellent health. Formerly a sluggish server, he becomes active with exercise. When it is so easy and at times actually profitable to exercise the herd bull, why is it that the most of them never get exercise from one year’s end to another? —Montreal “Weekly Star."