DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 199 



Ansicer. I am told that in Maine oxen have the garget. 



Mr. Cobb. Yes, and some of us believe that is true. 



Dr. Cressey. What are the symptoms? 



Mr. Cobb. They will become stiff and stupid, and their brisket 

 is drv and "brash." 



Dr. Cressey. Why not call it rheumatism, or gout? 



Mr. Cobb. The}' never had a cold. 



Dr. Cressey. How do 3'ou know ? A majority of cases of garget 

 are from taking cold. Wh}- use that word? Don't call white black, 

 simpl}' because it is more convenient. 



A Farmer. We don't know anj' other name up here. 



Dr. Cressey. Am sorry for 3'ou then, surely. 



Sec. Gilbert. I want to repudiate the idea that all people in the 

 State of Maine believe that oxen have the garget. 



Dr. Cressey. You see the importance of a definition when we 

 are discussing a disease. Our definition of garget is, "a disease re- 

 sulting from inflammation of the milk-secreting gland ;" and that 

 excludes at once the possibilitj^ of an ox having it. 



Mr. Cobb. Isn't it just as common for a cow to have garget at 

 the time of her drj'ing up, as when she is coming-in in the spring? 



Dr. Cressey. Not in my experience ; I rarely see it. 



Question. Is high feeding, on corn and cotton-seed meal, a cause 

 of garget? 



Answer. Yes, if it produces a general plethora of the S3'stem. 

 When cows are very highly fed on nutritious food this is the first 

 place where it shows itself. The ordinary feed, grains and cereals, 

 the cows will bear without so much danger, but cotton-seed meal is 

 very heating and exciting indeed. 



Question. Which is the most likely to produce it, corn meal or 

 cotton-seed meal? 



Ansiver. I should fancy an excess of cotton-seed meal would pro- 

 duce it quicker than corn meal. I shouldn't want to attribute it to 

 either one of them, unless these other causes that I have spoken of 

 were excluded. 



Question. Do you think cotton-seed meal is more heating than 

 corn meal? 



Ajisiver. More exciting in that particular direction ; I do not 

 think there is more heat producing power in it, however. 



Sec. Gilbert. Whether an excessively heat producing food would 

 be more likely to produce a disturbance there than one of a different 

 nature ? 



