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cleanliness and moderate attention will prevent 

 most of these complaints. 



Hove, Sheep, as well as cows and oxen, are 

 apt to be hoved, as the farmers call it, upon being 

 put on moist succulent grass, particularly red 

 clover. In this complaint the new grass floats upon 

 the contents of the first stomach, so as absolutely 

 to close the upper orifice. Fermentation soon 

 begins, and a great quantity of air is extricated, 

 which being pent up, swells the animal to a great 

 size, particularly on the left side, just forward of, 

 and below the hip, where the paunch in ruminant 

 animals is attached to the integuments. 



Several remedies are prescribed for this com- 

 plaint ; all of which tend eidier to absorb or give 

 vent to the confined air. But such only as let out 

 the air are to be depended on. To this end, we 

 are directed to drive the animal about ; to throw it 

 suddenly into water ; to plunge a pointed knife 

 into the paunch just below the hip, or to break the 

 cake of grass, which prevents the escape of the 

 L\ir, by thrusting down the throat, quite into the 

 stomach, a flexible rod, which may be made of a 

 piece of grape vine, on the end of which is a small 

 knob, which being covered with leather, and well 

 greased, may be used without any apprehension 

 of danger : it no sooner reaches the stomach than 

 the air pours out abundantly, and the animal is 

 entirely relieved. It is therefore to be preferred to 

 any other less efficacious, or niore hazardous 



