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Popular Science Monthly 



While the condemned horse eats, the gas enters the air- 

 tight stall, causing him to die peacefully and painlessly 



A Humane Method of Destroying Horses 

 with Illuminating Gas 



ANEW equipment for killing con- 

 demned horses with illuminating 

 gas has been installed in the Denver 

 City Pound. A small air-tight stall is 

 connected with the city gas - main. 

 While the horse is munching his oats or 

 hay from a mangei in one side of the 

 stall, the gas enters from a pipe directly 

 underneath. The animal gently and 

 peacefully subsides into insensibility. 



The stall is ten feet long, seven feet 

 six inches high, and four feet wide. It 

 was devised by Walter C. Cox, of Den- 

 ver, Col., who claims that stables or 

 buildings can be adapted to the purpose 

 by making them air-ti;.ilit. He has also 

 devised a leather inhaler with a three 

 quarter-incii hose connection and a 

 strap to pass around the horse's nose. 

 The inhaler is used where a stall is not 

 available. 



b\- the use of an adjustaliie 

 weight. But the apparatus for 

 suspending the weight is novel. 

 An o\'ershoe-form is laced' over 

 the foot. To this overshoe straps 

 are attached which run over 

 rollers mounted in slots in the 

 upright end-board of the frame. 

 These straps are attached to the 

 weight - strap, which runs up 

 over a roller suspended from a 

 scale. The other end of the 

 strap has a weight attached to 

 it. 



Movement of the limb up or 

 down or longitudinally within 

 restricted bounds is possible, as 

 in doing so the suspended weight 

 is raised or lowered without 

 altering the tension on the liml). 

 This alleviates the discomfort, 

 to some degree, of a trying situation. 

 The sides of the apparatus are hinged 

 to permit of the letting down of either 

 side in order that the limb of the 

 patient may be placed in it easih-, as 

 shown in illustration. 



New Apparatus for Setting 

 Broken Bones 



Tins apparatus for setting broken leg 

 Ijones, devised by John B. Hunt, 

 Mansfield, Ohio, makes it possible for 

 the patient to move the injured leg to 

 a limited extent without danger of 

 displacing the fractured ends. The 

 bones are kept in correct alinement, 

 as is customary in surgical practice, 



The apparatus in use. Details of the 

 construction, and a cross-scclion showing 

 how the sides open and close on hinges 



