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syringe with me and some tablets of sulphate 

 of strychnine. A hypodermic injection of this 

 substance was immediately given and within 

 five minutes the animal was feeding as if noth- 

 ing had happened. This incident led me to 

 overdose several animals with gasoline and 

 then to try to revive them with hypodermic 

 injections of strychnine. In all cases the treat- 

 ment was successful. It is thus seen that in- 

 jury from gasoline may be counteracted by 

 either aromatic spirits of ammonia or by 

 strychnine. 



METHODS OF DRENCHING ANIMALS. 



The popular method of drenching is with a 

 bottle. The use of a drenching tube is, how- 

 ever, far more satisfactory. A drenching tube 

 may be made by taking an ordinary tin fun- 

 nel, which may be purchased for five or ten 

 cents, and inserting the narrow end into one 

 end of a rubber tube or hose, say^three feet 

 long and three-eighths or one-half inch in 

 diameter; into the other end of the rubber tube 

 is inserted a piece of three-eighths-inch brass 

 or iron tubing about 4 to 6 inches long. 



The metal tube is placed between the ani- 

 mal's back teeth, and the sheep or calf is al- 

 lowed to bite upon it. The water or drench is 

 poured into the funnel, which may be held by 

 an assistant or fastened to a post at a con- 

 venient height. The man who holds the metal 

 tube between the animal's teeth can control the 

 animal's head with the left hand, and by hold- 

 ing the tube in the right hand, near the point 



