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are to be produced, the tip may be removed for about 
three-quarters of an inch from the left or right car for 
three or thirty, and if a five notch is to be used in either 
ear it may be cut in the middle of the cut edge. It is 
next to impossible to see the number at the base of the 
ear when the animal has long hair about that part, so 
that it is frequently necessary to feel for this notch, which 
is a great trouble in some cases. (Sce Fig. 40.) 
