CHOKED CATTLE. 



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CHOKED CATTLE. 



The facts that more attention is now paid to the 

 rearing of cattle and the introduction of improved 

 breeds than formerly, and that many valuable ani- 

 mals are yearly lost from obstructions in the throat 

 or by choking, which might be saved were proper 

 measures adopted, have induced us to present to our 

 readers drawings of a cattle-probang or throat-tube, 

 from the work on cattle by the Useful Knowledge 

 Society, and a condensed account of the best meth- 

 ods of removing obstructions known at the present 

 day. We give these engravings the more willingly, 

 as the tube is found one of the most efficient and 

 immediate agents of giving relief in hoven or bloat 

 that has yet been devised, and, where it can be had, 

 far preferable to the knife- to which farmers in this 

 disease are frequently compelled to resort. 



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These cuts will give a sufficient idea of t'ne con- 

 struction of the most useful probang or oesophagus- 

 tube, and which should be in the possession of every 

 farmer who breeds cattle extensively ; t)r, where 

 this is not the case, one might answer for several 

 neighbouring farmers. No man, however, who 

 pretends to the character of farrier or veterinarian, 

 should be without these or similar instruments. 



