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take doses of medicine about one-fourth as large as full 

 grown cattle. 



In all cases where possible prevent the animal from 

 eating the leaves of the mock orange, the cherry and 

 the peach — especially wilted leaves on recently cut or 

 pruned branches. In case of sorghum, always test the 

 stunted sorghum by cutting and feeding a little before 

 turning cattle into the field to graze on it. In fact, 

 it is best and safest to begin to feed it gradually, by the 

 soiling method, and after the cattle have been brought 

 up to full feed in that way, they may be turned into the 

 field for a short time each day until they become accus- 

 tomed to it. Very few cases of accidental poisoning 

 have been produced by cutting sorghum and feeding i* 

 to cattle; vet such instances have occurred both with 

 sorghum and kaffir corn. 



Phytolacca dccandra has been reported as poisonous 

 for cattle. G. R. White, in the Journal Comp. Med. 

 and Vet. Arch., 1902, p. 439, reports that 5 cattle 

 out of a herd of 13 were affected with haemorr- 

 hagic enteritis accompanied with dysentery. These 

 cattle had eaten large quantities of Phytolacca, and 

 White attributed the enteritis to the eating of that 

 plant. 



l^'rom an unpublished article of Prof. E. R. Miller, of 

 the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, at Auburn, I ob- 

 tained the following facts: 



Three different times Prof. Miller became sick follow- 

 ing the grinding of the roots of Phytolacca. The sick- 

 ness was very like the preliminary symptoms of influ- 

 enza; alternate periods of chilling and high fever; in- 

 tense headache; insomnia and restlessness; some irrita- 

 tion of nose and throat ; lasting for about 24 hours. Two 

 students were very similary affected ; also a negro 

 ground the roots of phytolaeca and was similarly troub- 

 led. One student was not affected; another had irrita- 



