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Show is usually applied as a last resort. The veterinarians have a rule for in ae ting the trocar. They span with outstretched thumbs and middle finger for a ioint at right angles with the chine and hip joint on the left side, punching the trocar in a downward and inward direction fulloy six inches, when it should tap the stomach and allow the gas to escape. By planting the trocar at a point equidistant from the hip bone, the last rib and the lateral process, many a valuable valu-able animal has been saved when other expedients have failed The hollow ru'dbang passed into the stomach might give relief, so might a drench of a tablespoonful fo hyphsulphite of soda, or a rowel in the mouth; but when these fail resort to the trocar and cannula, and the suffering ruminant is saved." A correspondent in treating upon alfalfa tympany in sheep says: "I I my e over 400acteei) ; ojfalf n and it was thy purpose to j)asture one field for a time, theu turn to another ano-ther field where the growth was n foot high or more; but with this hrge growth the sheep could eat so much so soon that in twenty minutes to half hour five out of 100 would be dead from bloat. Not liking to give up my plan of turning turn-ing from one field to another I began feeding a ration of grain each morning before putting them upon alfalfa, and after being on about fifteen minute I would return them to the yard, as it was a few rods distant, and give a feed of hay; tnen turn to the field again the same as before, with hay again. I did this from four to five times daily for a month, but in spite of every precaution I would lose one now and then on the large growth. I shall continue to feed hay arid grain till they are fully need to it." Denver Fild and Farm. THE REMEDIES FOR ALFALFA BLOAT. With the return of spring in ilio groat alfalfa districts of the irrigated irri-gated west comes the annual complaint com-plaint about loss of ruminating domestic animals from hoove or bloat caused by green alfalfa. We have had a number of letters in regard re-gard to this matter within the last two weeks and to fully explain the attending evil as remedies for the same we reprint from Irrigation Farming what the author has to say on the subject as follows: "The only objection which has been raised against alfalfa as a forage plant is its tendency to cause bloat in ruminating animals. In its component parts there is nothing in alfalfa which would necessarily create hoove, and the only way by which it occurs is when the animal eats too greedily and over-gorges itself by taking iu greater quantities than it can digest, di-gest, when gas accumulates and tyinpamy of the first stomach is the inevitable result. It is held tiiat alfalfa p-own without irrigation irriga-tion will not cause bloat. Neither will esparcet, which is a plant similar to alfalfa. A number of preventives have been introduced to alleviate the sufferings of an animal with the hoove, but the trocar is the surest alternative and |