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HOG CHOLEEA 



pig weighing less than sixty pounds may be seized 

 by the hind legs and held with the head suspended, 

 belly toward the operator. If the armpit is 

 chosen the pig is suspended by the front legs 

 which are drawn well apart. 



Shoats weighing more than sixty pounds are 

 confined in a variety of ways. Sometimes they 

 are thrown and held on their backs; sometimes 

 two men suspend them by their hind legs ; at other 

 times it is convenient to incline a V-shaped hog 

 trough against a fence so that it forms an angle of 

 about 45 degrees with the ground. Into this the 

 shoats are placed on their backs, heads downward, 

 and their snouts are allowed to slide under a cleat 

 which extends across it. Perhaps the most serv- 

 iceable method of handling animals of this size is 

 to seize them by the front legs and set them on 

 their haunches with their backs drawn firmly 

 against the legs and body of the man holding 

 them. In this position they are quite helpless and 

 they are easily held as their weight rests entirely 

 on the ground. Shoats thus confined are injected 

 in the armpit. 



In throwing larger hogs that are to be held on 

 their backs for treatment it is well to seize them 

 by the front leg on the nearest side. A common 

 mistake is to reach under them for the off foreleg. 

 Another convenient and surprisingly easy method 

 of throwing is to seize the tail with the right hand 



