102 How THE FARM PAYS. 



A. I always use the trochar myself, which I think affords the 

 speediest and surest relief. Another remedy is to give brewer's 

 yeast to the animal. It is a sure remedy if it can be had fresh. A 

 quart of the yeast, given at once, acts as a purgative very quickly, 

 and so relieves the animal. Another easy remedy is to put a short 

 round stick, about two inches thick, crossways between the animal's 

 jaws, in the manner of a bit, and fasten the ends to the horns, draw- 

 ing it close up. This causes the cow to make efforts to relieve herself 

 of it, holding up her head, and gives the gas a chance to escape. 

 The trochar and canula, however, affords the most certain relief. 

 The puncture is made at a spot half way between the last rib and the 

 hip bone, on the left side, and a little below the line of the hip bone. 

 The direction of the instrument should be downwards, so as to avoid 

 injuring the kidney. The swelling is always the greatest just at 

 this spot. 



Q. To get at a right understanding of this important matter of 

 soiling, please state at what season of the year you begin and your 

 method of feeding it? 



A. I begin to feed about the middle of May with rye, which, as has 

 been stated before, is the first green feed. I feed about seven o'clock 

 directly after milking in the morning, feeding a little at a time, until 

 they seem satisfied. What is left is taken from before them and the 

 mangers cleaned ready for the next feeding. They are fed again at 

 noon and at four o'clock in the afternoon. At six o'clock they are 

 milked, turned into the paddock for a night's rest, where they enjoy 

 the fresh, cool air, and are free from the annoyance of flies. This pro- 

 cess of soiling the cattle is continued until the middle of November, 

 if frost and cold weather keep off so long; and very often later, as I 

 often plant a few acres of late cabbage, and sometimes a portion of 

 them do not head up, and are in that condition used for soiling, the 

 same as any other green fodder. Field pumpkins are used late in 

 the fall in the same manner, broken up with an axe, and fed to the 

 cows once a day. The cabbage and the pumpkins then will carry us 

 sometimes to the end of November, according to the season, but we 

 generally make it a point to begin our regular winter feed about the 

 middle of November, which is done in the following manner: Dried 

 fodder corn, or hay made from oats and peas, orchard or other grasses 

 is cut, and mixed with crushed roots, which have been run through 

 the machine known as the ' ' pulper " until they are of the consistence of 

 apples ground for cider, enough being mixed to last a week at a time. 

 The whole is mixed with a little salt (bone meal at times), bran and 

 ground oats and corn, and lately I have used with great advantage a little 

 cotton seed meal. There is nothing arbitrary in the quantities used of 



