. The diseases of animals; a book of brief and popular advice on the care and the common ailments of farm animals. Veterinary medicine; Domestic animals. 424 The Diseases of Animals in a quart of water, should be given as a drench as quickly as possible. Cattle are sometimes poisoned from eating quantities of flax chaff. They are often fed flax straw and chaff with good results; but fine flax chaff should not be fed alone to cattle that are not used to it; even a small quantity eaten under unfavor- able conditions may cause acute indigestion and death. It should always be mixed with coarser fo
. The diseases of animals; a book of brief and popular advice on the care and the common ailments of farm animals. Veterinary medicine; Domestic animals. 424 The Diseases of Animals in a quart of water, should be given as a drench as quickly as possible. Cattle are sometimes poisoned from eating quantities of flax chaff. They are often fed flax straw and chaff with good results; but fine flax chaff should not be fed alone to cattle that are not used to it; even a small quantity eaten under unfavor- able conditions may cause acute indigestion and death. It should always be mixed with coarser food, and but little given at a time. Ergotism is a chronic form of poison- ing resulting from the eating of ergot. It is sometimes serious among cattle. Ergot is a fungus that attacks certain grasses, especially rye and plants known as "wild rye," causing the heads to have abnormal grains. This is commonly called "spurred ; Fig. 59. When ergot is eaten in any quantity, it causes irritation of the bowels, colics, abortion in pregnant fe- Fig 59 males, and a sloughing of the extremities, Eye, with ergot such as the feet and tail. The treatment at a (X J^). The . ^ ,, , . diseased grains IS to rcmovc the causc and give good laxa- are enlarged and . „ , hlack. tive MOLDY COEN In the corn- growing regions of the West, in years when the corn crop is poor and the ears are small and damaged by the green corn-worm, the ear, especially. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mayo, Nelson Slater, 1866-. New York, Macmillan; London, Macmillan
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