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or nearly three-eighths of an inch in diameter. Slip 
this loop over the testicle, and between it and the 
big artery which may be seen along-side 
Removing the of testicle. Ifat first you don’t succeed, 
try again. It may require several 
trials, but don’t lose patience. It will go all right at 
last. In especially bad cases you may take wire in 
place of the horse-hair; but the latter is usually to be 
preferred, and if the testicle is in normal condition, a 
little perseverance will surely lead to success. When 
you see that the loop has properly caught on, draw 
up on the loose ends of the horse hair, at the upper 
end of canula, so that the loop is all pulled in, 
and the testicle tightly drawn up to the end of 
canula. Hold the canula with the left hand, twist- 
ing it back and forth about half way around, at the 
same time pulling continuously and strongly on the 
ends of the horse-hair with the right hand, thus 
cutting and twisting the testicle off its fastenings. 
When you feel it give way, pull it up with the can- 
ula and horse-hair, and if some of the strings still 
adhere to it when you get it up through the open- 
ing, cut them off with the knife so that a little bit, 
say 3, of an inch, remains on the testicle. This is 
important. If you cut too close to the testicle, 
nature may try to thwart your purpose by letting a 
new growth of testicle take place, thus causing what 
is know as a “slip.” 
The thing to be avoided is injury to the big artery. 
If the blood-vessel should forma kink, and the kink 
be drawn into the horse-hair loop, the artery will be 
torn, and the fowl will bleed to death in a few min- 
utes. With reasonable care, however, this does not 
often happen. 
