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cent, but I have heard of cases in the year 1879 
τὸ where the damage amounted to one- 
sixth.” 
Smut said to be injurious.—Smut is gener- 
ally thought by farmers to be injurious to live 
stock, yet but little satisfactory evidence is at 
hand to prove that such is the case, as it 15 com- 
monly eaten. But three experiments on this 
point have come to the writer’s knowledge. Dr. 
Gamgee for three weeks fed two healthy cows 
on smut, wet and dry. The wet did no harm, 
but a loss in weight followed the eating of the 
dry. The animals had voracious appetites, 
were fed three times per day, and ate from 3 to 
12 oz. ata dose. In three weeks they ate 42 
105. of smut.* Prof. Henry of the Wisconsin 
experiment station performed a similar experi- 
ment on two cows.+ One cow ate as much as 
32 oz. of smut in a day, and the other up to 64 
oz. The latter cow died suddenly the next day 
after eating a large amount of smut. Prof. 
Henry attributes her death to having eaten 
this, which is not strange. In making a post- 
mortem examination no serious derangement 
was found in the intestines, but Prof. Henry 
thinks the brain was affected. An associated 
press dispatch in the daily papers of Noy. 10, 
*Report Commissicner of Acriculture on Diseases of Cat- 
tle in the United States, Washington, 1871, pp. 73-76. 
+ Breeder’s Gazette, Oct. 10, 1894. 
