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double, are often substituted for hobbles, and for many varieties of 

 these special claims are made by their inventors, or by those who give 

 them their preference, and use them in their practice. Without 

 entering into the consideration of the comparative merits of these 

 various methods, which vary, not only in nearly every country of 

 the world, but even in different sections of the same country, 

 there is a mode of their apphcation, upon which we have a word 

 of comment to off'er. This is the mode with a single, and that 

 with a double rope. 



(1st.) With a single rope. — This is the simplest mode of 

 casting, but it is also the least safe. It is the oldest of the 

 methods in use, but has in our days been more or less modified 

 and improved. The method of Eohard seems to be as perfect as 

 any of them. In this, a rope from twenty to twenty-five feet in 

 length is necessary. The horse being placed near the bed where 

 he is to be thrown, is held in the ordinary manner. If he is to he 

 on the near side, the operator is placed on the right, near the 

 shoulder with the rope, in which is a knot about six feet from its 

 end, which Eohard calls the ring knot (a), and immediately below 

 it is another, caUed the stoppioig knot {b), through which the rope 

 will run. "In this way," says Eohard, "there is a large loop 



PIG. 34.— AppUoation of tne RoUard MetUod. 



