many times. It is very easy to do when a fellow knows the 

 cow is very mad, and comes at liim double quick, with such 

 long horns, out on the plains, thirty miles from any tree or 

 house. I sometimes feel I could climb two at a time, or 

 any other way to get out of their reach. Each helper also 

 had a pole planted near him, to climb when necessary. Mr. 

 Iliff had fifty-five thousand head, and all as wild as Buffa- 

 loes. 



The most large horses I ever altered in one day was 

 sixty-six head for Lux & Miller, of San Francisco, Cal., on 

 a farm fourteen miles wide on an average, and over fifty 

 miles long. I also spayed a few cattle for them, out of their 

 eighty thousand head, and other stock in proportion. From 

 there I went to Pettaloma, Col., and offered to castrate the 

 "man eater" free of charge (it was an imported Norman 

 stallion seventeen hands high, that had killed several men) 

 but he was kept as a show then, and I failed to get the job; 

 but a month later he was shot seven times and killed, while 

 he had his keeper, Prof. Tapp, down trying to kill him. 



I felt proud as an American to cast a very vicious ridg- 

 ling horse for Mr. Case, in the Veterinary College, London, 

 Fng., and castrated him in good order, before a large crowd 

 of veterinarians there, who always treated me as kindly as 

 if I was a veterinary myself, with a large diploma. 



I have castrated in the veterinary colleges of Paris, 

 France; London, Eng. ; Glasgow, Scotland; Montreal, Can- 

 ada; Boston, Mass.; Chicago, 111.- and other cities too 

 numerous to mention. I have spayed cows for the State of 

 Pennsylvania, and have castrated colts for the Baltimore & 

 Ohio Railroad Company, two of the richest firms any cas- 

 trater ever worked for. 



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