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and held by passing a slip-noose in the end of a rope or side-line 

 around the fetlock and carrying the line over the withers to the 

 opposite side, where it is held by an assistant. A hind limb may 

 be controlled by passing a round pole in front of the hock of the 

 leg to be raised, and, with a man at each end of the pole, carry- 

 ing the limb backward and upward, in which position it is held ; 

 or the limb may be bent and controlled by tightening a twitch 

 or tourniquet upon the leg just above the hock. Oxen that con- 

 tinue to resist may sometimes be quieted by light blows of a 

 short stick upon the base of the horns. In parts of the country 

 where many oxen are shod stocks are in common use. 



Very satisfactory stocks have been designed by Gutenacker, of 

 Munich (Fig. 141). The four corner-posts (a, a, b, b) are eight 

 inches square and eight feet long, of which three feet four inches 

 are sohdly implanted in the ground. They are united by side- 

 and cross-bars (c, e, d). In front of the corner-posts (a, a) and 

 in the middle line stands a head-post (e) of the same dimensions 

 as the corner-posts, provided with a slot four inches wide and 

 twenty inches long beginning three feet from the ground. In this 

 slot is a pulley-wheel (i), and below it a windlass ijc) for winding 

 up the rope which is tied around the base of the animal's horns. 

 The corner-posts are provided with a slot {n) three inches wide 

 and three inches deep, within which are placed two movable 

 side-bars (o, p), which can be set at desired heights and fastened 

 by iron pins. Between the front and rear corner-posts of the 

 right-hand side is an eight-sided roller with a ratchet and click 

 at one end, and having on one of the sides six iron hooks, to 

 which a girth is attached. On the opposite side of the stocks, at 

 the same height, is a stationary bar (/) with six hooks {g, g) on 

 the outer side. The belly girth is six feet long, six inches wide, 

 and terminates at both ends in several strong cords two feet 

 four inches long with iron rings at their ends. Between the 

 front corner-posts are a neck-yoke (A) and a breast-bar which 

 slide in the slots (m) and may be fixed at desired heights by iron 

 pins. On the rear face of each rear corner-post is an iron 



