. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1884 ^fne ISrcMer mut J^pcrvtsmau. 22,o HERD AND SWINE. Poisonous "Weeds and Grasses. Dr. E. W. Gerwer, of Erie, Penn., furnishes a local paper with the following readable screed on ergotism and similar diseases caused by poisonous weeds and grasses. For several months news was received from different parts of the United States about a mysterious disease amongst the cattle. The affected animals commenced to tremble all over, looked wild with their eyes, and lost their hoofs and feet by gangrene and died miserably. In the neighborhood of Erie, at Grahamsvil
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1884 ^fne ISrcMer mut J^pcrvtsmau. 22,o HERD AND SWINE. Poisonous "Weeds and Grasses. Dr. E. W. Gerwer, of Erie, Penn., furnishes a local paper with the following readable screed on ergotism and similar diseases caused by poisonous weeds and grasses. For several months news was received from different parts of the United States about a mysterious disease amongst the cattle. The affected animals commenced to tremble all over, looked wild with their eyes, and lost their hoofs and feet by gangrene and died miserably. In the neighborhood of Erie, at Grahamsville, a herd was affected and all agreed that the animals were kept in the best possible order; that they had a good stable, plenty to eat and good drinking water, and the owner was an intelligent man who understood his business. Some said the animals had frozen their feet; others claimed it was the mouth and foot rot, without a sore mouth, as this part showed no disease, others thought something else; but the animals suffered and died in spite of all the theories. Fi- nally two days ago a flash from the telegraph brought some other news from Neosho Falls, Kansas, where a herd was af- fected. Some veterinary surgeons examined the fodder of the sick animals and discovered in it an abundance of poisonous ergot, spurred rye, secal cornutum, which the Germans call brand or mutterhorn, and which is a favorite prescription for our midwives, and creates a good deal of mischief given in large quantities. Mixed with the cereals it will poison men and beasts and cause gangrene of the fingers and toes, and finally death. It grows particularly in wet years, where it is not wanted, like its comrade the darnell grassâloliuni temu- lentumâwhich the Germans call very nicely swindle oatsâ "schwindel hafer' or lolchâa miserable counterfeit of the honest oats, like the oleomargarine and the snine of the cow butter. The ergotism is no new disease and existed 500 years ago. During the war be
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