drenching is largely dependent on the time element. Haste is in¬ 
advisable, and if drenching is done leisurely, it is usually a compara¬ 
tively safe procedure. Wright prefers an aloes ball to linseed oil; 
this ball may be given with the balling gun or by hand. 
The use of the stomach tube is one solution of the drenching prob¬ 
lem, and appears to be especially indicated in infestation with stomach 
worms, Habronema spp., the worms being removed by anthelmintic 
lavage. i',! 
CATTLE 
In the writer’s limited experience in administering anthelmintics 
to cattle it is not particularly difficult to give anthelmintics to them 
by stomach tube or by drench, or in capsules by means of the balling 
gun, but the few experiments along this line have not suggested any 
niceties of technic that deserve mention. 
SHEEP 
Experience shows that it is a simple matter to drench sheep with 
most anthelmintics, such as the copper sulphate solution, and with 
suitable apparatus these animals may be thus treated at the rate of 50 
to 100 an hour. 
DRENCH CAREFULLY, PREFERABLY WITH TUBE 
Too much haste is, of course, inadvisable in drenching sheep as in 
drenching horses. If such volatile drugs as gasoline are used the 
danger is much greater, as sheep fight against drenching with gaso¬ 
line and this often results in the gasoline getting into the lungs with 
serious results. In drenching a metal tube is usually inserted in the 
mouth, this tube being either end portion of a funnel, rubber tube 
and metal tube arrangement, or a dose syringe, or some similar ar¬ 
rangement for drenching. A hard rubber tube is unsatisfactory as 
sheep or cattle have little difficulty in breaking hard rubber by chew¬ 
ing on it. It is advisable to move the metal tube about in the mouth 
as this seems to facilitate or stimulate swallowing on the part of the 
animal being treated. The ease with which sheep may be drenched 
seems to render the use of a stomach tube unnecessary for dosing ex¬ 
cept in the case of volatile drugs. 
GIVE CAPSULES WITH BALLING GUN 
The administration of capsules to sheep appears to be a simple 
matter if a balling gun is used. The mouth of a sheep is too small 
to permit of the technic that is used in balling a horse by hand and 
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