200 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Ans7ver. Anvthiiig tliat will constipate the bowels and interfere 

 with the ciriMihition of tiie blood within the alxloiiiiiial cavit}' will 

 interfere with the action of the udder. 



Mr. Conn. Isn't cotton-seed meal more likely to keep the bowels 

 0})en than corn meal. 



Answer. Yes, as a rule I think it is, but it is more exciting to the 

 mammary gland. That is the point in question. You should give a 

 liberal amount of carrots and potatoes when you are feeding cotton- 

 seed meal. 



Sec. GiLHKUT. One of the difficulties that the cattle commission 

 have been called upon to investigate a good many times has proved 

 to be an impaction of the omasum. 



Dr. Cressey. That in itself is not a disease, but an incident of 

 several diseases. In milk fever there is often a thorough impaction 

 of the third stomach, which is about as large as an old-fashioned 

 iron tea-kettle. If you cut it crosswise you will see a series of 

 leaves ; and they are always full of the residuum of food that is un- 

 dergoing digestion. An}' disease that shall involve the circulation of 

 the abdominal cavitv will interfere witli the process of digestion in 

 the third stomach, or manifolds ; it is frequently seen in milk fever, 

 enteritis and various other diseases. It is rare that vou find a cow 

 sick or dead from any general fever without an impaction of the man- 

 ifolds. In Texas cattle fever we find it almost invariably ; in pleuro- 

 pneumonia not infrequentU' ; and in tuberculosis and various other 

 types of disease you will find this trouble. Hence it is not a disease 

 proper, but a consequence of some disease that involves the circula- 

 tion. In such cases open up the bowels by salts and lard, injections 

 of thoroughwort tea, &c. ; this impacted matter must be expelled. 



Question. I understand you to say that garget is never found ex- 

 cept in milch cows. Do heifers that haven't come in ever have it? 



Answer, There is sometimes a determination of blood to the 

 part and what is called milk-coming before calving : that is, you 

 sometimes have to commence to milk a heifer before she calves. 

 That is not a case of garget proper. 



Questioner. The case that I refer to was that of a calf. Older 

 men told me it was garget. She seemed to lose her appetite, and I 

 gave her some garget and she ate it freely. 



Dr. Cressey. Did she have enlargement of the udder? 



Questioner. No. 



