Veterinary medicine, animal castration, surgery and obstetrics simplified . you fail inthis adopt the Second procedure.—Take apiece of smooth wire 10 feet CHOKE IN THE COW. 141 long about the size of a pail bail, double it in the center form-ing a loop, leave the loop a little rounded and about fourinches wide; oil this and introduce it into the mouth. Havethe choke held by an assistant; now carefully work the wirepast the choke when it will come between the two wires,which you can feel with your hand, now carefully withdrawthe wire, object and all. This operation has always been suc-cessful w
Veterinary medicine, animal castration, surgery and obstetrics simplified . you fail inthis adopt the Second procedure.—Take apiece of smooth wire 10 feet CHOKE IN THE COW. 141 long about the size of a pail bail, double it in the center form-ing a loop, leave the loop a little rounded and about fourinches wide; oil this and introduce it into the mouth. Havethe choke held by an assistant; now carefully work the wirepast the choke when it will come between the two wires,which you can feel with your hand, now carefully withdrawthe wire, object and all. This operation has always been suc-cessful with me. Do not try to force a choke down into the stomach untilthe last resort, and then use the doubled wire a ball ball should be one and a half inches in diameter, per-fectly smooth and a little flat or hollow on the side that goesgoes down against the choke. A piece of inch or inch and aquarter rubber hose will answer very well for forcing a chokedown into the stomach, but a bar, pitchfork, broom-handle, orwhip stock will kill more than they will ANIMAL CASTRATION, CHAPTER IV. THE EFFECT OF CASTRATION. This particular piece of surgery is of all others the onemost often performed upon the domesticated animal, and isfollowed by certain peculiar efiects. The most striking changeproduced by the removal of the testicles is manifest in thecharacter and disposition of the animal, which becomes atonce, in a double sense, an altered being submissive and docilewilling to become the obedient and useful servant of we find the vicious stallion, the unmanagable bull, thedangerous boar, the hysteric mare and kicking cow trans-formed into the useful gelding, the gentle ox, the fattenedbarrow, the quiet, submissive mare and the productive cow, asthe result of this operation. The male animal assumes the THE AGE TO CASTRATE. 143 character and form of the female not only in appearance butin voice, which loses its resonant sound of the stallion. Alike change take3
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