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collar, with the knot turned downwards. The two ends of 

 the rope coming from the knot in front of the breast, are 

 now to be carried backward between the fore legs, and 

 brought round the hollows of the heels of the hind legs, 

 forward again, on the outer sides, in order to be run through 

 the collar-rope, from which being carried again backwards, 

 and extended in a direct line behind the animal, they are 

 ready to serve, on the application of force, as a double- pulley, 

 operating in drawing the hind feet forward close against the 

 elbows : thus at once casting the animal, and securing him, 

 when down, in a position highly advantageous to the operator.-^ 

 One man will be required — two answer better — for each 

 rope, who should be stationed directly behind the colt, and 

 as near as they durst approach to his quarters, it being im- 

 possible now for him to kick. Just before the pull be made, 

 it is a good preparation to falling (if we can or durst venture 

 to do it) to advance his hind feet by lifting them forwards 

 under his body ; and, as soon as the time arrives, to make 

 the pull, the men ought to exert themselves all at once, and 

 no less forcibly and simultaneously than suddenly , it being 

 desirable to take the animal off his legs by surprise — before 

 he receives that warning of what is about to be done to him 

 that sets him struggling and resisting. The moment he 

 is cast, the man at his head must with his knee confine 

 him down in the manner before mentioned, while the pullers 

 are still steadily continuing to draw the hind legs forward. 

 The hind feet being drawn close up to the elbows, the force 

 must be steadily maintained, until each rope, by half- 

 hitches, be made twice more to encircle the fetlock : one 

 rope may then be carried backward, and the other forward ; 

 each being firmly held, in a state of extension, by an assis- 

 tant. The colt thus secured may be turned upon his back, 

 and bolstered up in that position by bundles of straw, or be 



' Mr. Read, V.S,, Buntingford, in a letter, in vol. xvii, p. 423, of the 

 * Veterinarian,' suggests that, " after having formed the middle of the rope into a 

 collar, to place the knot on the top of the withers, and the two ends liackward 

 around the heels of the hind legs, instead of placing the knot on the breast; 

 this Would he found an improvement." 



