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drawn far enough down to use the emasculator. 

 One can use an ecraseur in all cases and dispense 

 with the emasculator altogether, but I have found 

 that an emasculator can be used in about ninety 

 per cent of the cases and, being a much quicker 

 and easier method than the other, one is justified 

 in carrying both instruments in his equipment. In 

 cutting off the testicle see that the three parts are 

 removed, viz., body of the testicle, head of the 

 epididymis and tail of the epididymis. These 

 three parts are often far separated in a retained 

 testicle and it is well to see that they are all in- 

 cluded in the parts removed. 



"Cutting 'Em Proud" a Fake.— I might say 

 in this connection, that the old idea that leaving 

 on the stump of the cord, a part of the epididymis 

 would influence the nervous and physical develop- 

 ment of the animal and give to it the characteris- 

 tics of a stallion cannot be substantiated. The 

 influence that the testicles have upon the physi- 

 cal and temperamental development of the ani- 

 mal depends upon an internal secretion elabo- 

 rated by these organs, absorbed into the blood 

 and l5anph channels and exerting its influence, in 



