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Show LIVESTOCK 1 I NEVER DRENCH CATTLE. By Dr. David Roberts. Visc6nsin State Veterinarian, Afore cattle die from the effects of being drenched than from tuberculosis. tubercu-losis. Perhaps tho best way of demonstrating demon-strating the danger of drenching cattle cat-tle is to advise the reader to throw back his head as far as possible nnd attempt to swallow. This you. .will find to be a difficult task and you will find it much more difficult ana almost impossible to swallow with jrouth open. It is for this reason that drenching cattle is a hmgcrous practice. However, if a cow's head be raised as high as possible and her mouth kept open, by the drenching bottle or horn, u portion of the liquid is very apt to pass down the windpipe wind-pipe into tlve lungs, sometimes causing caus-ing instant death by smothering. At other times causing death to follow in a few (lays from congestion or in-, fiamation of the lungs. We are constantly receiving letters let-ters ot this office describing th sudden sud-den death of animals that were ailing ail-ing with such minor ailments as constipation con-stipation or loss of appetite and upon investigation find that they have fceen drenched' and the cause of their death being due to same. This is oftentimes often-times proved by sending out one of our assistant vcrcrinarians to hold post-niortcm upon such animals only to find that a portion of the drench was still in the lungs; other cases where death had been prolonged and later the animal had died of mechanical mechani-cal pneumonia. 1 do not feel that the stock raisers of this country realize the danger in drenching cattle and the enormous financial loss brought about by same. o |