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days. In order to prevent vomiting the quantity of water was diminished. 

 From the fourth day the goose received only a ration of 100 grms of the 

 meal and it died on the 6th day. The autopsy of the dead animals performed 

 by the Pathological Department of the Veterinary High School diagnosed 

 for the three geese : inflamation of the aesophagus : serous circumoesophageal 

 inflammation : inflammation of the small intestine : hemorrhage of the vi- 

 sceral membrane of the pericardium. An hemorrhagic inflammation of 

 the .stomach was also observed in the three geese, caused by numerous Stron- 

 gylus nodularis, which developed independently of the absorption of the 

 toxic substance. Of the three fowls two suffered from an acute inflamm- 

 tion of the small intestine and hemorrhage of the pericardium, the third 

 from an acute inflammation of the crop, oesophagus and gizzard. 

 The following conclusions are drawn. 



i) The observed cases establish the fact that Agrostemma Githago has 

 the property of producing in poultry grave symptoms of poisoning. 



2) As the meal employed in the experiments contained only 40 to 

 50 per cent of the grist of corn cockle seeds, it follows that substitution 

 of one fifth of the daily ration by this grist will cause death. 



3) vSince the pathological S3^mptoms mentioned above resemble very 

 closely those of acute mineral poisoning, great caution must be employed in 

 judging analogous cases, particularly as sittings of grain containing more 

 or less corn cockle seed constitute a food widely distributed in Hungary. 



4) Since the siftings contain widely varying amounts of corncockle 

 seed (from 8 to 38 per cent in the mills of Budapest) the percentage of corn- 

 cockle seed admissible in the daily ration must be known in order to 

 avoid poisoning. 



5) It is convenient to base the daily ration on the maximum content 

 (about 40 per cent) of corncockle seed in the residues from the milling. 

 Nevertheless it is advisable to submit a sample of the product to an Agri- 

 cultural Station for examination and expert advice. 



IIQ2- Experiments on the Feeding of Draught Horses made in Sweden from 1908 to 



1915. — Hansen, N. (Director of the Domestic Animal Department of the Central Agri- 

 cultural Station of Stockholm) in Fiihlings landwiytschaflliche Zeitting, 65th 3'ear, No. 13-14: 

 pp. 289-315. Stuttgart, July 1-15, 1916. 

 In the years 1908-1915 the Swedish Central Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station has made repeated experiments to ascertain the value and prac- 

 tical utility of different foods for draught horses. Some of these experi- 

 ments have already been described by the writer in a preceding publica- 

 tion. The present experiments 40 in number, divided into 12 series, and 

 made with 372 horses, deal with the following foods : barley, oats, a mixture 

 of oats and barley, maize, potatoe flakes, wheat bran, oat bran, a mixed 

 food (oat bran and rice meal), mangels, carrots and cooked potatoes. 



In choosing the animals amongst ordinary draught horses on diffe- 

 rent farms, care was taken that the horses of the same team were as far as 

 possible of the same age, temperament, and strength and had the same 

 height to the withers. Except one team, all the off-side horses formed one 



