draw twenty-five pounds on that rope. While he draws, 

 you lift the left hind foot with your hand enough to tighten, 

 like cut 8, up and between the hoeks and wrap around ankle, 

 and then take two half-hitches and ask some one to hold 

 five pounds on that rope, which will keep it from slipping 

 and getting too long. Now go to the horse's lower feet and 

 remove the back rope from the left fore foot by slacking the 

 pull of the two first pullers on the left fore foot. Now re- 

 tie that foot up tightly by looping a knee rope in the mid- 

 dle over that ankle, and one end under the leg and one over 

 the arm; tie tightly in a bow knot near the collar in No. 8. 

 Now have the two first pullers who still hold the end of the 

 back rope walk around behind the horse to his back, and 

 pull hard. One man should now lift on the under fore leg, 

 and, the operator assisting, all should turn the horse over 

 slowly, then tie the right legs just as you did the left legs; 

 then turn him up on his back again, place the spreaders in 



SPREADERS 20 INCHES IN'SIDE. 



between the ankles as in cut 9, and tie them by putting the 

 spreader loops over each hind foot, then tie around each leg 

 with strings in the spreaders. Please cast and tie other 

 horses repeatedly this way before you tackle a ridgling for 

 castration — practice the A, B, C of ridgling work. 



Your easiest ridgling to castrate will be the one you tie 

 best and hold properly. To get a good tie you must first 



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