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AMERICAN FARMER'S HORSE !B00K:. 



The practice of twitching, resorted to by some as a means 

 of shirking a disagreeable job, is an outrage and barbarity. 

 It consists in tying a small cord around the bag, so as to de- 

 stroy the circulation, tightening it, if necessary, and letting it 

 remain thus until the scrotum, with all its contents, drops 

 off. !N'ot only are the sufferings occasioned by this disgrace- 

 ful and slovenly method extremely severe, but inflammation 

 and death often ensue. 



THE MULE. jk 



The business of raising mules has become an extensive 

 and important interest in our country. In Kentucky and 



Tennessee immense numbers 

 are reared every year for 

 the Southern market. They 

 have been found much better 

 suited to the requirements of 

 the cotton plantations than 

 horses. They work freer and 

 with less trouble, are more 

 hardy, stand the climate bet- 

 ter, ^nd are not so easily af- 

 fected by the neglect and cruelty of the negroes and others 



