136 



one-half inch long; now push the trocar and canula into 

 the paunch (3 to 4 inches deep), pull out the trocar and 

 let the gas escape through the canula for one or more 

 hours; Avhen you desire to remove the canula always 

 insert the trocar into it and remove both together, this 

 prevents infection of the wound. In case, you have no 

 trocar get a long quill or better a joint of swamp cone 

 about the size of a lead pencil or pipe stem, boil it in 

 water, (at least scald it), make a sharp bevelled edge 

 on one end, and push the sharp end into the iriinch 

 through the opening made in the skin as directed above. 

 After removing the trocar and canula or cane stem, 

 apply weak creolin solution to disinfect the place; also 

 give purgatives and antiseptics internally if not already 

 given. 



Feed carefully for the next few days, always give salt 

 every day; granulated salt is better than rock salt. 



PART II. 



BY G. F. MATTHEWS. 

 ABORTION. 



Commonly known as miscarriage or losing, slipping 

 or slinking the calf, colt, lamb, whichever the case may 

 be. 



Abortion may be defined as delivering (parturition) 

 before the end of the regiilar period of pregnancy 

 (gestation) or before the young has fully completed 

 foetal life whether the little creature be dead or alive. 

 Foetal live refers to life before birth, the 3'oung up to 

 this time being a foetus. The average period of preg- 

 nancy in farm animals is for mare and Jennie, 11 months 

 and 15 days; cow 9 months and 15 days; sheep and goat 

 5 months; sow 4 months. If an animal delivers a few 

 days before time the deviation* is unimportant since the 



