according to the fatness of the horse. A number one ridg- 

 ling's seed will be found in the tunic, five to six inches up 

 the canal. A number two ridgling's seed is eight or ten 

 inches up, yet in the tunic. In each case work your finger 

 around the seed, tunic and all, and break the adhesion, and 

 gently draw it down some, then split the tunic with your 

 hook or knife one inch, and with your two fingers tear the 

 tunic open until the seed slips out, then put on your ecra- 

 seur and crush off one inch above the seed and Globus mi- 

 nor. Numbers 3 4 and 5 not explained in this revision, 

 are above the inguinal ring, floating in the abdomen. 



A few times I have been called on to altar ahorse with one 

 large seed, after two had been removed, and found it a scir- 

 rhus cord as large as a seed. If it had been cut off three 

 inches higher it would have been all right then, and no 

 scirrhus cords would have appeared afterward. I think all 

 cases of hydrocele (water seeds) may be avoided by cutting 

 high, say thrte or four inches above the testicles. I think 

 all tetanus may be avoided in castration by using no clamps 

 or ligatures to be left on over one day. I think nearly every 

 death may be prevented by proper exercise and medicine af- 

 ter castration. I never saw a horse I was afraid to castrate 

 at a reasonable price, and insure him to live for ten per cent 

 on that amount beside my regular fee for that class in that 

 locality. Of course my fees are much lower at home than 

 a thousand miles away from home. 



The best treatment I know of is to drench the horse 

 twenty-four hours previous to the castration with one and 

 one-half pnts of raw linseed oil, and soon as castrated give 

 him drachm doses of my castrating tincture every three 

 hours apart: 



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