Show magnet saves cows every year thousands of cows die as the result of swallowing pieces of wire nails and bits of metal often these lodge in portions of the stomach not easily reached by the operating surgeon and now a veterinary surgeon has thought out a way of dealing with such cases his method is being practiced widely says london tit bits magazine the surgeon makes an incision and inserts into the animals stomach a powerful sterilized magnet which draws the metal pieces to it in country areas where it Is impossible to plug the magnet into a main it can be operated by an ordinary car battery |