CA S TORS — CA S TRA TION 



be easily kept if his head is pulled over towards the shoulder, 

 and then his legs can be secured if it is necessary to do so. 



Casting Tackle. 



A truss or two of straw should be provided for him to fall 

 over on. 



Castors, also styled chestnuts, are the callous, horny 

 excrescences which horses possess above the knees and below 

 the hocks on the inside of their lees. 



Castration. — The desirability, nay, the necessity, of 

 subjecting superfluous stallions to the operation of castra- 

 tion must be admitted by everybody who has studied the 

 question of horse-breeding, as what he has seen and learned 

 cannot have failed to convince him that countless most 

 undesirable sires are bred from every year. It is, however, 

 probable that a mistaken, but none the less very widely- 

 spread belief that it is dangerous to use stallions for work 

 in saddle or harness, is mainly responsible for the large 

 proportion of castrated males, or geldings as they are 

 usually described, which are to be met with in England. 

 On the continent the proportion of geldings to stallions is 

 not nearly so large, and there are evidences in this country 



