56 Dr. Monroe's Elastic Tubes, &V. 



Farmers, graziers, and keepers of cattle in general, 

 should not be without an article of such great utility ; by 

 means of which, when cattle are blown, the air is not only 

 more certainly and expeditiously discharged than by 

 stabbing the animal, but the danger is avoided which 

 stabbing occasions, not so much by the irritation which 

 the wound creates, as by the air and other contents of 

 the stomach getting into the cavity of the belly between 

 the containing parts and the bowels, which excites such 

 a degree of inflammation as too frequently proves fatal to 

 the animal. 



