80 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



or paunch, corn-husks and corn are found in a dry condition. Sometimes the rumen is 

 very full, and gas may have become disengaged in it so as to cause a great distension, 

 which is relieved by puncture. The contents. of the second stomach, or reticulum, are in 

 the same condition as those of the first, though sometimes mixed with some fluid. The 

 third stomach, manyplies or omasum, is firm, distended, and oil being opened the food is 

 found caked between the folds, with marked impressions of the papillce or little eminences 

 which stud the mucous membrane. We find in almost all fevers a similar condition of 

 the third stomach, and indeed in healthy animals it is that part of the digestive organs in 

 which the food is most dry and packed preparatory for solution by the gastric juice and 

 intestinal secretions. But there are other lesions associated with this &quot;caking&quot; of the 

 food in the third stomach, in specific diseases, and its existence without these affords 

 evidence of a primary form of impaction, which has received most remarkable names, 

 such as &quot;staking,&quot; &quot;bound,&quot; &quot;fardel-bound,&quot; &c. The fourth stomach contains but a 

 scanty quantity of greenish, semi-digested matter, is usually reddened somewhat diffusely, 

 and the redness increases at times toward the opening of the small intestines. 



The intestine, usually replete with somewhat solid and imperfectly digested food, is 

 usually high colored, especially in the fundus of the caecum and in the large portion of 

 the colon. The rectum is the seat of ramified redness, and a consistent mucus coats its 

 contents. 



Persons have reported a peculiar black color of one lung. This is due only to stag 

 nation of blood after death, in the organ nearest the ground; and the same kind of con 

 gestion or settling of the blood is apt to pervade other tissues and organs in the side on 

 which an animal has been lying. 



TREATMENT. 



I have found the accidents resulting from the feeding of smutty corn to cattle very 

 amenable to treatment. Almost all the animals die unless relieved, but it is not difficult 

 to treat them successfully. At first a purgative must be administered ; such as a 

 pound or a pound and a half of Epsom salts, or Glauber salts, alone, or combined with 

 aloes, sulphur, or ginger. The following is a desirable purging drink: 



Sulphate of magnesia 1 pound. 



Powdered aloes 4 drachms. 



Powdered ginger 2 drachms. 



Water 1 quart, 



This is to be given in warm linseed tea, oat-meal gruel, or pure water. A pound or 

 two of treacle, with eight drachms of aloes or a pint of linseed or sweet oil, may be 

 used when the salts are not at hand. Cattle should be induced to drink either plain 

 water or linseed tea. Common salt will create thirst, and for this purpose may be given 

 in such quantities as will not make the liquid too salt to be palatable. Warm water in 

 jections are of the highest importance, and for this purpose the enema funnel,* which can 

 be made by any tinsmith at a charge of about fifty cents, is the best instrument yet de- 



* This IN an ordinary tin funnel, capable of holding one quart, with the pipe l&amp;gt;ent at right angles, about ten inches 

 long from the licnil, with the extremity rounded hy a mass of soft solder to prevent the rectum from being injured by 

 the insertion of the sharp edges of the pipe. The contents Uo\v into the intestine by gravitation. 



