148 The Diseases of Animals 
This keeps him down, for horses get up on their fore 
legs first, and it is necessary for them to throw their 
heads upward in order to get their balance. 
In throwing horses, a spot of level greensward 
should be selected, or the floor or ground be well 
covered with straw, to avoid injury as the animal goes 
down. It is a good plan to place a folded blanket 
under the horse’s head, to prevent injury to him while 
down. In working about horses, an operator is liable 
to be hurt, either by the animal’s kicking, biting, or 
striking with the fore foot. The safest place by a 
horse when he is standing is close to the left shoulder, 
as the horse is unable to kick or strike a person there, 
and the head can be kept away by holding with the 
right hand. A person should stay close to a horse, 
or else keep quite out of bis reach. A medium dis- 
tance is dangerous ground. 
In throwing good-sized cattle, the animal is con- 
fined by the head, one end of a small one-fourth 
inch thirty-foot rope is tied to the horns, a half-hitch 
taken about the animal’s body just back of the fore 
legs and another just in front of the hind legs; then, by 
having the half-hitches tight and pulling on the end 
of the rope sharply, the animal will go down. Fig. 37. 
It can be kept down by drawing the tail through be- 
tween the hind legs and by holding it forward and up- 
ward. This keeps the animal from getting up, for 
cattle always get up on their hind legs first. 
Hogs can be restrained by slipping a noose of small 
rope on the upper jaw just back of the “tusks.” 
This will confine the head, when the animal can be 
