294 METHOD OF TREATING HOVEN CATTLE. 



ascribed to erosion by water; for in the transverse valleys 

 the limestone appears most unalterable. While the accli- 

 vities of schist and gritstone are covered with vegetation, 

 those of limestone exhibit perpendicular sections and sharp 

 ridges. 



VIT. 



Instrument 

 for relieving 

 hoven cattle. 



Many annual 

 ly lost by this 

 affection. ' 



Inconveni- 

 ences of a for 

 mer in^tru 

 Jnent. 



Method of stabbing Hoven Cattle, to discharge the Ratified 

 Air from the Stomach, when they have been overfed with 

 moist Clover Grass: communicated by Mr, W. Wallis 

 Mason, of Goodrest Lodge 9 near Warwick** 



Gentlemen, 



Jl Beg leave to lay before you a trocar and canula, for the 

 relief of cattle, when gorged or hoven. Since 1 have intro- 

 duced it, it has been used with the greatest success, having, 

 in every instance tried, been proved a safe, easy, and ef- 

 fectu.xl remedy. 



1 consider it will not be necessary for me to detail the 

 dangerous consequences arising from cattle being hoven, 

 as it is well known, that the public are annually deprive4 

 of numbers of valuable cattle by this disorder. I am in- 

 clined to offer it as an instrument superior to that, for 

 which the Society granted a premium in the year 1796; as 

 I am of opinion, that flexible tubes may be forced down the 

 passage, which conducts to the lungs, by which most dan- 

 gerous consequences would ensue. An instance of this 

 kind occurred las" year in this neighbourhood, when in- 

 tending to force the passage of the paunch, and occasi- 

 oned the loss of the animal. 



Neither the farmer nor bailiff can be expected when going 

 the rounds of the farm, to carry with him at all times an 

 instrument so large as one of the flexible tubes; even if he 

 had it, he could not make use of it without the assistance 

 of a second person, and the disorder would be fatal in most 

 instances, before such assistance could be procured. 



* Trans, of theSoc of Arts, vol XXVI, p. 128. The silver medal 

 was voted to Mr. Mason for this communication, 

 w - ' I confidered, 



