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found five or six sheep lying dead before them, 

 bloated as big as barrels, and others suffering 

 from bloat. 



Sheep that have eaten large quantities of clover, 

 rape, or alfalfa and have become bloated, are in 

 terrible distress. The gas rising from fermenta- 

 tion causes the first stomach to distend to its ut- 

 most capacity. This stomach on account of its 

 abnormal size presses upon the lungs, and conse- 

 quently interferes with the respiration, sometimes 

 stopping it entirely, in which case death follows, 

 or the stomach may even burst from the pressure. 



REMEDY FOR BLOAT. 



Trocars and knives have been used in tapping 

 the bloated sheep to let the gas escape from the 

 stomach. The writer must confess that he never 

 had any success with either of the two, perhaps 

 due to his own fault in operation. But he takes 

 pride in giving to his readers a remedy, still un- 

 known to many and not yet published elsewhere. 

 When the sheep that is bloated is not found alto- 

 gether too late, and the overloaded stomach has not 

 been pressing too heavily upon the lungs or has not 

 burst, the sheep can be saved. Quickly find a pail, 

 run to the first cow you see that is giving milk, 

 draw out from a pint to a quart of it, come back to 

 the sheep as quickly as possible, and give about a 



