. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. A/i Improvement in Cattle-Tying 107 the ring, according to the size of the animal. This is very easy to shew, but it will require a diagram to describe it. First open a strand and put an end of the rope through, drawing it up until the eye of the loop is but little bigger than the rope itself {b, iig. 3). Then (with your marline-spike, a tapering bit of hard wood 10 inches long), open a strand of the part of the rope that you have just put through, as close to the loop as possible {c. Fig- 3- Fig. 4- fig. 3), and pa
. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. A/i Improvement in Cattle-Tying 107 the ring, according to the size of the animal. This is very easy to shew, but it will require a diagram to describe it. First open a strand and put an end of the rope through, drawing it up until the eye of the loop is but little bigger than the rope itself {b, iig. 3). Then (with your marline-spike, a tapering bit of hard wood 10 inches long), open a strand of the part of the rope that you have just put through, as close to the loop as possible {c. Fig- 3- Fig. 4- fig. 3), and pass the other end {d) through. By pulling a and b tight we get a loop (fig. 4) which is always open, and will not slip out of place. This is the loop shewn as d, fig. 2, Through this loop put the end of the rope in- tended to hold the ring, and you have a slip- knot {e, fig. 2). Splice the ring in its place, not forgetting the thimble, to prevent chafing. The outer end of the rope might be knotted with a man-rope knot by an old sailor; but a button lYz inch across (_/j fig. 2) cut from a I-inch board of some tough timber, with a hole in it for the rope, is quite as good. A symmetrical knot for holding this in place can be made by straining 6 inches of the end of the rope, and turning the strands, one at a time, down, under, and up, within itself, after the method of a half-knot. The second strand will include the first within its loop as it is turned under and up, and the third strand must include both of the others. If this be done rightly, and the strands drawn snugly in their j^laces, the ends will come to- gether in the centre of the knot, where they may be clipped short. It is but the work of a second to pass the rope around the animal's horns, and slip the button /, fig. 2, into the slip-knot e, which is always ; This would make a capital plan for tying animals round the neck, and if the button were made of lead, or pewter, or of iron, so as to balance the weigh
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