138 SPRING-TIME SURGERY 



modification to apply to a large variety of cir- 

 cumstances may be useful, particularly to the 

 recent graduate in veterinary medicine whose 

 boyhood and manhood was not spent on a farm 

 or among animals. 



To Handle the Hind Feet of an Unbroken 

 Horse*. — Take a piece of five-eighths inch rope 

 with a noose at one end that will not slip and 

 large enough to go around the neck near the 

 shoulder, then put a half-hitch around the body, 

 just back of where the backhand of a harness 

 comes, then take on back through a strap buckled 

 firmly around the root of the tail. To this fix a 

 ring or a knot and connect a small block-and- 

 tackle with it and to a hobble on the foot to be 

 raised. A ten-year-old boy can do the rest. 



To Pass the Knisely Stomach Tube*— Draw 

 very tightly around the nose a common harne 

 strap, this is placed just high enough so as not 

 to interfere with the animal's breathing. Then 

 lubricate the tube and pass it in through the in- 

 terdental space and down the esophagus as usual. 



♦By H. B. Treman. D. V. M., Rockwell City, Iowa; reprinted froM 

 the Mitaouri Valley Veterinary Bulletin, July, 1909. 



