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comparatively harmless. It is the part of wisdom, therefore, 

 to remove these tusks before any damage is done, because we 

 never know what the quietest boar may do under provocation. 

 Several methods may be employed, and the following one will 

 answer very well. The boar is first made fast to a post by 

 means of a rope noosed about his upper jaw back of the upper 



FIG. 49. Yearling Berkshire boar, a Canadian prize winner. 



tusks. Then one man takes a crowbar and another a sharp 

 cold chisel and a hammer. The 'sharp edge of the crowbar 

 is placed against the tusk near its base, and held firmly in 

 position, and the edge of the cold chisel is placed on the oppo- 

 site side of the tusk directly across from, and even with, the 

 edge of the crowbar. A sharp blow with the hammer on the 

 cold chisel does the job. 



