Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1914-04-25
BLOAT OR HOvEN IN LIVE
STOCK.
Every Farmer and Stockman Should
be Familiar With Quick Remedy.

| ~ = oAAAAidA VIII SulCk NCIueQy.
This is the beginning of the green
grass season when cattle and sheep
are subject to bloat from eating clio
yer, alfalfa and other green heritage
Bloat is an ailment that requires
prompt treatment. 1t comes quickly
and kills quickly, and if a remedy is
to be applied it must be applied quick
ly. Every farmer and stock owner
should be familiar with some prompt
and reliable treatment for the common
ailments and diseases to which the
farm animals are subject so as not to
be helpless in applying a remedy in
any case of emergency.
| There are a number of remedies
used to relieve the bloated animal
| Every COW doctor has treatment,
and quite often it does not act as
promptly as the disease and the COW
| dies. If all cattle owners would stop
and think just one moment when they
| read this article, they need never lose
an animal with bloat that they find
alive if they have a few minutes to
place the remedy. 1t is simple, pos
! sibly too much so to meet the en-
dorsement of those who think the ser
vices of the COW doctor should be
| had.
When an animal is discovered with
| bloat, at once insert, well back in the
mouth and over the tongue, a round
stick as large as your wrist or fore
arm and long enough to project at
either side of the mouth so that to
each end of the stick may be fastened
a string, which must be securely tied
over the back of the head or horns,
so that the stick will be held back in
the mouth firmly and cannot be re-
moved with the tongue. This will
keep the animals mouth wide open,
an involuntary discharge of the gas
will commence at once, and the COW
will be relieved in few minutes This
is the safe way, the easy way, the
quick way, with no danger whatever.
| You can relieve your COW in half the
time it would take to run to some
neighbor to ask him what to do, and
then possibly he could not help you.
! The smearing of the stick with a lit
| tie pine tar, axle grea Sc or something
| dstasteful to the animal is recon-
mended, as it causes an effort to dis
lodge the stick, resulting in the work
| ing of the jaws and throat that slim
ulates the secretion of saliva and
! swallowing, thus opening the esopha
gus and permitting the escape of the
gas.
1t is a good plan to have several
round sticks, with strings tied to each
end, in readiness, so that in case an
animal needs attention it can be given
at once a piece of fork handle will
| do, but a larger round stick is a bet
ter size for the full-grown COW. Some
persons are not satisfied with one
good semedy, but want two or three
| dt idsiu W aPPiys ~ th"N III N"9N IN
| first administered does not work like
magic the others can be employed in
turn as fast as they can be admins
tered When the average horse has
the collie he is given all the remedies
that are suggested by all who chance
to see the poor brute in his misery,
until he.is relieved or dies from over
dosing
A half pint of kerosene oil mixed
with an equal quantity of water is
said to be remedy used by some
cattleowners. This is to repeated in
fifteen minutes unless relief is had
soccer. The trocar is quite frequently
resorted to in severe cases needing
immediate relief, and in the hands of
an experienced operator, is generally
successful. 1t will pay any cattle own
| er to provide himself with this instru
ment and have an experienced OPP
orator teach him how to use it, as
there is danger of the operation prov
| ing fatal when the instrument is not
properly applied.-Twentieth Century
| Farmer.
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