al method.

In this staking method if a mother refuses to own her kid, or if she
dies, the kid has no chance to steal milk from some other wet doe, and
unless closely watched, quite a number of kids will starve. The rope
should be changed from one leg to the other occasionally to allow
symmetry of development. The preparation of ropes and stakes for a
thousand kids is quite a task, and it keeps the energetic herder busy
during his spare moments getting ready for kidding time.

For the first few days the Angora kid is full of life and vigor as any
animal of like age. If he be well nourished, he will frisk and play at
all kinds of antics, until he is so tired that he must forget
everything. The sleep which comes is so sound that any usual amount of
noise does not disturb him. It is this characteristic which makes it
unsafe to take kids on to the range with a flock. The kids are liable to
hide behind some bush, go to sleep and be lost.

CASTRATING.

Before the kids are allowed to go out with the flock the males should be
castrated. The Turk does not alter the males until they have developed
sexuality and the male horn, _i. e._, the heavy characteristic buck
horn. He then castrates by either removing the testicles, or by twisting
or destroying the spermatic cord. When the latter method is used the
testicles and cord undergo an inflammatory process which destroys the
regenerative power of the animal. The testicles remain in the scrotum
apparently unchanged. The animal thus treated presents to the casual
observer the physical characteristics of a buck. The Turk claims that an
animal treated in this manner is less liable to die than one whose
testicles are removed. This is probably true, as the initial lesion
produced by the operation is very small, and there is less liability of
infection.

The usual method employed in this country is to remove the testicles
before the regenerative power of the animal is developed. This gives the
wether a feminine appearance, and there is comparatively little danger
of death if the operation is properly performed. It will be easiest to
castrate the kids between the age of two and four weeks. The kids
should be driven into a small clean corral, and after undergoing the
operation they should be turned into a large clean enclosure.

The operator stands on the outside of the small corral, and the
assistant catches the kids and turns them belly up before the operator,
onto a board which h