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comparatively harmless. It is the part of wisdom, therefore, 
to remove these tusks before any damage is done, because we 
never know what the quietest boar may do under provocation. 
Several methods may be employed, and the following one will 
answer very well. The boar is first made fast to a post by 
means of a rope noosed about his upper jaw back of the upper 
fig. 49.—Yearling Berkshire boar, a Canadian prize winner. 
tusks. Then one man takes a crowbar and another a sharp 
cold chisel and a hammer. The sharp edge of the crowbar 
is placed against the tusk near its base, and held firmly in 
position, and the edge of the cold chisel is placed on the oppo- 
site side of the tusk directly across from, and even with, the 
edge of the crowbar. A sharp blow with the hammer on the 
cold chisel does the job. 
