large veins just below, and repeat on the other side. Kaeh 

 incision three inches long. Now both testicles are exposed 

 with (tunic) or striffin on. Split the tunic and lift the seeds 

 up well. I pull up about two pounds on the average year- 

 ling and three or four pounds on the average stallion on 

 each seed, so as to get well up on the cords. The best way 

 1 think, is to use a good ecrasure and the hook knife to get 

 the testicles exposed, then grasp them both in the left hand 

 at the same time, through the chain of your ecrasure and 

 lift up about three pounds on a large yearling or six pounds 

 on a large stallion. Then with the right hand adjust your 

 chain several inches up on the bloody cord (spermatic cord ) 

 and attachments but always square across, and sometimes 

 over the exposed ends of the tunic, which is not wrong, if 

 you like, but always, after closing the chain, you can cut two 

 inches of the tunic off, it has no blood in it, over one or 

 both testicles, and around both cords at once, hold now with 

 the ecraseur in the right hand. Now, take the two large 

 cords, one at a time, in your left hand, and draw them one 

 inch or more through the chain, so as to shorten them still 

 more. Now see that no skin or extra tissue is caught un- 

 der the chain; then change hands by graspiug the ecraseur 

 near the front end with the left hand, with the thumb rest- 

 ing firmly upon the chain and loop, in the ecaseur, then 

 with the right hand quickly take up all slack in the chain 

 and tighten it some, enough to bite it half off, then loosen your 

 chain and drop towards the seed one-half inch, and put on 

 your chain tight now, then with the left hard grasp the 

 middle of the ecraseur over the handle to better hold it, as 

 you should; then grasp the gimlet handle in the right 

 hand, and turn until one or both cords are severed, which 



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