uterus down one horn to the junction, bearing down all the 

 time, then up the other horn to the other ovary, and remove 

 it, and sew up with two stitches skin deep only. 



The way to make hog spaying easy is to get in practice, 

 and never forget to bear down constantly on the cut with the 

 back of your other fingers, which sinks your left front fin- 

 gers nearer to the ovaries, and keeps the bowels in at the 

 same time. The hog should lie flat on the ground on its 

 right side, with two men holding each foot in a hand, and 

 stretching lengthwise, with mouth open. This is the pre- 

 ferred position by experts, who spay thirty hogs per hour 

 all day. My dislike for hog music, which is so abundant in 

 spaying, has prevented my doing it for pay, at the usual 

 price of ten cents each, but I would use a bench if I spayed 

 hogs. 



I do like, however, the work of spaying cattle. Year- 

 lings are the most common ages; but all ages are spayed. 

 A spaying chute is the best way, for then they are held still 

 while standing; but for general practice the ropes are the 

 most available and convenient. Let us suppose we have a 

 lot of fifty cattle to spay today, mostly yearlings, and have 

 five men as helpers, and have choice of a large lot of one 

 acre, or a small lot fifteen feet by thirty feet, or a barn floor. 

 If the weather is fair, the small lot will be the best; if rainy, 

 the barn is preferable — the acre lot is too large for conven- 

 ience in catching. Now, all ready in the small lot, first run 

 a wagon near one corner to crowd them behind; the catcher 

 should be a pluck}' fellow, and catch the first yearling near 

 him with his left hand under the chin, and his fingers in the 

 right side of the mouth, his right hand on the left horn; 

 then turn the calf's nose up and back on the left side tightly, 



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