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Fig. 21 — Side View witli Animal in Standing Posture Showing Positions of Right 

 Hand, Knife, Left Hand and Scrotum Prior to Making Incisions. Observe that the knife 

 is thrust Into the testicle well forward on tile scrotum. The incision is made by a single 

 sweep of the knife backwards. 



knife in right hand begin well forward, on scrotum and with two 

 quick bold sweeps of the knife make backward slashes which will 

 expose, or a better term would be "drop," both testicles from 

 the scrotum before you turn loose. These slashes should be 

 parallel to the raphe or median line. Now with the emasculator 

 which is handed you by a second assistant, or better still carried 

 in a specially constructed pocket in your overalls, sever the sper- 

 matic cords as high up in the flank as possible, after which release 

 the animal. If you have been dexterous and have not "loafed 

 on your job" you have consumed the whole of six to ten seconds* 

 time. However, if you have been engaged as long as fifteen or 

 twenty seconds you need have no remorse of conscience, as often- 

 times it takes — what otherwise would be considered a fairly good 

 veterinary surgeon — as long as twenty minutes to finally succeed, 

 after much effort and a great fight, in removing as many as two 

 testicles from the scrotum of a stallion in the standing posture, 

 and some of them even after graduation and many years' ex- 



