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PHYSIOLOGY AT THE FARM. 



multiple stomachs in the ruminants. This first stomach covers 

 nearly the whole of the left side, concealing many parts from 

 view. These multiple stomachs, in the ox, four in number, but 



Fig. 9. 



EXTERNAL VIEW OF THE PAUNCH IN THE Ox, AS SEEN ON THE RIGHT SIDE. 

 a, d, Paunch; 1), b, honeycomb ; c, gullet ; e, manyplies; /, true stomach, or red. 



of very unequal size, form a cluster, with the middle of which 

 the lower end of the gullet is connected. At the point where 

 the gullet ends, the first, second, and third of these stomachs 

 approach each other, so that the gullet communicates more or 

 less directly with each ; the fourth, or principal stomach, is 

 more distant from the gullet, and communicates with the 

 gullet only through the third stomach. The fourth stomach 



