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You may twitch animals of any age with 

 fafecy, if you attend to the following diredlions : 

 Take a cord of (Irength according to the ani- 

 mal's age and the fize of the part to be twitch- 

 ed, wax it with fhoemaker's wax, and then 

 greafe it that it may flide with greater facility. 

 If tfee part be likewife greafed,it will twitch the 

 better. Then tie the firing tightly round the 

 cod or fcrotum, above the tefticles, fo that the 

 circulation of the blood and other fluids to and 

 from the tefticles may be totally interrupted. 

 The fcrotum and its contents will thus foon 

 be deprived of all fenfacion, rot and fall off.— 

 For twitching, a peculiar knot is ufed. 



The above dire6tionsare drawn from my own 

 experience in caftrating tups, I have twitched 

 many hundreds, and never lofl: one. I have, in- 

 deed, known them die ; but that was owing to 

 bad management, by cutting off the cod and 

 ftones as foon as twitched ; for in that cafe, if 

 taG part be not twitched tight, cold may get in 

 and kill the animal. If you leave the part on, 

 that cannot poffibly happen ; therefore on no 

 account ever cut it off. Spirits of turpentine 

 are generally ufed for rams, but mud not to , 



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