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Mr. Douglas. They seem to take no interest in life 

 and then get sick of it altogether. 



Dr. Peters. I think in such cases a stimulant is as sfood 

 as anything. 



Mr. John M. Smith of Sunderland. Perhaps I can give 

 the gentleman a little light from my own experience. The 

 only remedy which I can suggest is one that I have tried 

 over and over again and always do where calves are born in 

 the barn ; I never knew such an instance where a calf is 

 dropped in the field. Where a calf is dropped in the barn it 

 is almost immediately tied up and allowed to have but very 

 little milk. Overloading the stomach is, in my opinion, the 

 cause of their drooping and dying. I have had a good 

 many calves that were apparently very healthy at first, that 

 in twenty-four or forty-eight hours appeared to be sick, 

 their eyes glazed over, they grew worse for forty-eight 

 hours, and finally died. I cannot give the cause, but the 

 remed}'' is what I have stated, — not to let them have access 

 to the cow's udder. That is the course which I adopt. I 

 tie them up almost immediately after they are dropped and 

 they only suck at my pleasure. 



Mr. Douglas. The gentleman does not hit the case at 

 all. My calves have been treated in all ways. They have 

 been taken immediately from the cow and have been fed the 

 milk of other cows in the same dairy, and cows of other 

 dairies ; they have also been allowed to run with the mother, 

 and in some cases I have known almost every calf in a herd 

 of cows to be affected in this way. 



Dr. Peters. I have had no experience in such cases, but 

 I see Dr. Winchester and Dr. Osgood in the audience and 

 they have both had more or less country practice, and per- 

 haps one of them can enlighten the gentleman. 



Mr. . I would like to ask the gentleman if he thinks 



apple pomace has anything to do with it ? 



Mr. Douglas. The question is very well put, but it does 

 not happen to apply to a herd where apple pomace is fed. 



Mr. BoYCE of Sheffield. I have had a little experience 

 with this disease, and it seemed to me that there was some- 

 thing contagious about it. Whenever it has attacked one 

 calf more have been attacked. In two instances we have 



