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THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 



The word having* been g-iven that the surgeon was ready 

 to dock the horse, bandages were put around the horse's 

 hind fetlocks and lower leg-s. Around the bandages a leather 

 strap at the end of a long rope was placed, the other end of 

 the rope being tied about the horse's neck, and resting on 



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Fig. 147— Cauterizing Tool, 



the breast. " This," said the operator, ^' is done to prevent 

 accident caused by the horse kicking, but it is not a neces- 

 sity." At the horse's head stood a man with twisters about 

 the horse's nose, which he tightened onl^^ slightly. The 



Ftg. 148— Docking Machine. 



horse being now tied, and in a A^se, so to speak, so that he 

 could do no damage, a strong cord was twisted and tied on 

 his tail about half an inch above where the horse's owner 

 desired to have the tail docked. The operator explained that 



Fig. 149-The Pricking Knife. 



this binding was done to prevent the flow of blood from the 

 tail after the cutting. The rope being bound tightly about 

 -the tail, the operator brought into requisition a queer-looking 

 machine, Fig. 148, made very much after the stj le of a lemon 

 squeezer. On the upper portion of the * * squeezer, " near the 



