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sharp tooth until they become lacerated, you will be apt to find 

 as a result that the horse will not eat. Only a little while ago a 

 man came from about twelve miles away to see me and he said, 

 "There is something the matter with my horse's tongue." I opened 

 his mouth and turned the tongue up, and in that tongue was a 

 gash at least an inch and a half long, which was full of oats and 

 feed that had lodged in there. When I came to look on the lower 

 jaw and examine the teeth, I found there was a sharp tooth which 

 had cut the gash in the tongue. 



MR. ORE: Mr. Chairman, I would like to inquire of the Doctor 

 if he can show us from his diagrams how to operate on a cow 

 bloated from clover. 



DR. TOWER: Yes, I can tell you how it is done and give you 

 a very reliable remedy. Here you will see the ribs are shown. 

 You can see here on this diagram where the ribs begin. Now just 

 about half way from the hip bone to the ribs is the proper place 

 to operate with a trochar — about as far as from the top of the 

 backbone — for instance, it would be about there (indicating). 



MR. SEEDS: On which side? 



DR. TOWER: On the right side. 



The SECRETARY: How do you point your trochar? 



DR. TOWER: You will find there will be spots where it will be 

 puffed up, perhaps a little more in one place than in another, and 

 that will enable you to judge; as I say, about at this point (indicat- 

 ing) is right, 



A Member: Wouldn't it do to use knives.? 



DR. TOWER: It has been done with knives, but I would not like 

 to use knives. 



If you stick a knife in here you are taking chances that I would 

 not like to take, as the stomach is acting right along, and you may 

 do a serious injury. If you take a trochar and insert it through 

 there as I have indicated, it will be safer, 



A Member: If you take a knife and insert a tube, wouldn't 

 that do? 



DR. TOWER: Yes, that would be all right; but before you put 

 that tube in, they may be an inch apart — those two holes — on ac- 

 count of the motion. 



DEPUTY SECRETARY: Mr. Chairman, we have fifteen minutes 

 to devote to this subject, so that it will be necessary to make the 

 questions brief, 



MR. HOOVER: What is the cause of a horse having the habit 

 of stall kicking when he is perfectly safe with a driver? 



DR. TOWER: Well sir, I couldn't answer that, nor any other 

 man, safely. I will answer that in this way: I know a gentleman 

 who will go out in company and he is the nicest gentleman you ever 



