PICKING UP FORE LEG. 



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3. The usual way carters lift up the fore leg of a heavy 

 draught animal is by catching the hair of the fetlock, and 

 then drawing up the leg. The slight irritation caused by 



Fig. 29. — Lifting up a fore leg. 



the pull at the roots of the hair will make the horse 

 readily bend the knee. 



