INTERESTING TO STOCKOWNERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 234, 28 November 1900, Page 2

INTERESTING TO STOCKOWNERS.

An opera!ion of interest to humane stockowners was performed in the Cambridge district a few days ago. A 'three-year-old colt, in trying to negotiate a six foot gate, struck himself in the flank so severely that a huge swelling immediately appeared, and it seemed certain that the animal was ruptured. The owner of the colt, being a practical man, know that to throw the horse by roping in the ordinary] way would most likely aggravate the I trouble. He therefore sent his boy for ] Mr. John Brown, the well-known local vet., while he himself rode to Cambridge for some choloform. Some wadding was saturated with two ounces of tbe drug and then placod in a nosebag, and fitted on the colt's bead. Immediately the colt showed signs of distress, and gasping and struggling about for two or three minutes it sunk to the ground with scarcely a struggle. Mr. Browne being then able to handle the swelling declared it to be a blood blister only. Using his knife the vet quickly made an aperture large enough to extract the two quartz of congealed blood which had lodged between the flank and the belly, and after stiohing and dressing the wound the nose-bag wairemoved when the horse at once got up and in less than five minutes commenced to feed, During the whole of the operation the colt never lliuchrd and seemed to be quite insensible to knife add needle alike. The horse was not rooei in any way,— Wmfoto