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the bloating- is so bad that it endangers the sheep's life, tapping is 

 performed by measuring first half way between the point of the 

 hip and the last rib, and about three inches down from the back 

 bone, then clip the wool off that space about the size of your hand 

 and cut a small hole in the skin just large enough to allow the 

 trocar and cannula to go in; the one used for tapping cattle will do 

 for the sheep by oiling it first and pressing it through the hole 

 that you cut in the skin downwards and inwards right into the 

 paunch. Leave the cannula in and pull the trocar out, and the gas 

 will all escape through the hole in the cannula and save the sheep's 

 life. As soon as the gas is all out, draw out the cannula and let 

 the hole heal up itself. If you have not a trocar and cannula, run 

 a penknife in the same place as described; this will let the gas out. 



IMPACTION OF THE FIRST PART OF THE STOMACH WITH FOOD. 



Causes. — From the sheep getting at some food that it is not 

 used to eating, such as grain, or being turned into a good pasture 

 dfter feeding in a poor one. Feeding a poor quality of peas, 

 straw or clover hay, especially if it is a little musty or over ripe, 

 will sometimes cause it. 



Symptoms. — The sheep will not be eating, looks dull, grates 

 ts teeth, does not chew its cud, and has a short, quick grunt 

 while breathing, caused from the food in the stomach pressing on 

 the lungs. The animal walks about in a stupid manner, and has 

 v'ery little passage from the bowels, and what does pass is hard 

 and dry. By pressing on the left side over the stomach it is 

 found to be hard, and by tapping on it, it makes a dull, heavy 

 sound, showing that there is food lying in the first part of the 

 stomach or paunch. 



Treatment.— Give the following: 



Epsom Salts ^ pound. 



Ginger 1 teaspoonful. 



Common Soda 1 . " 



Sweet Spirits of Nitre ^ ounce or 2 tablespoonf uls. 



Mix in a pint of luke warm water and give as a drench, then 



wait for twenty-four hours to see if this dose will physic and clean 



out the stomach; if it does not physic in that time, give: 



Raw Linseed Oil ^ pint. 



Spirits of Turpentine ^ ounce or 1 tablespoonf ul. 



Mix and give as a drench. After the physic operates, to 

 strensfthen the animal pfive: 



