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paunch with a knife or trocar and canula. Al- 

 ways do this on the left side, half way between 

 the hip bone and the ribs. In severe cases I 

 have known a farmer to use a butcher-knife and 

 make a hole large enough to run in his hand and 

 pull out the alfalfa. This is not necessary, as 

 a hole large enough to allow the gas to escape is 

 sufficient. A trocar and canula should be kept 

 for the purpose. Many recommend the same 

 treatment for bloat in lambs or sheep, but while 

 the treatment is always successful, the sheep so 

 treated usually dies. A better remedy with 

 lambs is to use the "probang." This is simply 

 a piece of rubber hose one-half inch in diameter 

 and three or four feet long. Block the mouth 

 of the sheep open so it cannot bite off the tube 

 and then run it down into the paunch like a 

 stomach pump. Work it around until the gas 

 is reached and allowed to escape. In several 

 years' experience feeding lambs at a high alti- 

 tude where the alfalfa hay produced bloat in 

 many animals, we never lost a lamb where they 

 were discovered in time, and we could get to 

 them with our rubber tube before they died. 



CtBaijt Often a horse or cow will get loose and help 



themselves to grain from a bin or sack left where 

 they can reach it. Such gorging often produces 

 the death of the animal unless it is discovered in 

 time. Physic such an animal at once. Give 

 the horse a quart of raw linseed oil and the cow 



