PRACTICAL ANGORA GOAT RAISING. 89 



tween the age of two and four weeks. The kids 

 should be driven into a small clean corral, and after 

 undergoing the operation they should be turned into 

 a large clean enclosure. 



The operator stands on the outside of the small 

 corral, and the assistant catches the kids and turns 

 them belly up before the operator, onto a board 

 which has been fastened to the fence. A pair of 

 clean scissors, or a sharp knife, which may be kept 

 in a five per cent, carbolic acid solution when not in 

 use, serve to cut off the distal end of the scrotum. 

 The testicles are then seized with the fingers and 

 drawn out. The operator drops the castrated kid 

 into the large enclosure and the assistant presents 

 another kid. Two men can operate on sixty kids an 

 hour. The testicles are slippery and some herders 

 prefer to use the teeth instead of the fingers to ex- 

 tract the testicles. Under no circumstances should 

 any unclean thing be put into the scrotum. Death 

 usually results from infection, and infection from un- 

 cleanliness. A little boracic acid might be sprinkled 

 over the cut surface as an additional precaution, but 

 this is unnecessary if ordinary cleanliness is ob- 

 served. If after a few days the kid's scrotum swells, 

 and does not discharge, the scrotum should be 

 opened with a clean instrument. Less than one-half 

 of one per cent, of the kids will die from this opera- 

 tion. 



