Excerpt from A Short and Plain Explanation of Farmer Miles' Methods of Animal Castration and Spaying and After Treatment When Necessary: With Illustrations This little book is intended as an expose of my favorite methods, ropes, instruments, and after treatment. I have tried to make it plain, and truthful, as well as helpful, to all castraters and farmers. Trusting it will be a benefit to many thousands of owners, and a mercy to all stock yet to be castrated, I am Yours truly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.