This section is from the book "Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics", by Paul N. Hasluck. Also available from Amazon: Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics.
To remove the cores from a pair of antelope's horns, place the horns in a warm, moist place, say inside a hot manure heap, until the connecting tissues between the horns and the bony cores become sufficiently decomposed to enable the horns to be pulled off.
 
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