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lost several calves each year. We have had them taken 

 sick after they had been taken from the cows nearly a week. 



Question. Is there any special breed of those cows or 

 are they native or grade cows? 



Mr. BoYOE. Mine are grade Durhams. 



Mr. Smith. Mine are grade cattle of all sorts. It may 

 be possible that there may be contagion in that matter, 

 because we have in some years lost a good many calves ; but 

 it is rarely that we lose one if we adopt the method I have 

 described. 



Question. When those calves are born, don't they have 

 the diarrhoea? 



Mr. BoYCE. No, sir, they do not have it when they are 

 born, but they have it afterwards, if they arc allowed to 

 suck all thoy want to. Some individuals have said it was 

 because I fed cotton-seed meal, — everything is laid to cot- 

 ton-seed meal ; but it does not make any difference. Calves 

 that come from cows which never had any cotton-seed meal 

 have sickened and died in the same way. 



Mr. Winchester. I have seen a little of this trouble 

 and oftentimes it is associated with tuberculosis. That has 

 been my experience with it. 



Dr. Lynde. I would like to ask Dr. Winchester if he 

 has ever made a post-mortem examination of any of these 

 creatures that have died in this manner? 



Dr. Winchester. Yes, sir, I have, quite frequently, — 

 more than I wish I had ; and we usually find some tubercles 

 on the covering of the bowels. Then, again, we find some 

 ulceration of the womb passages. 



Dr. Lynde. How are the lungs? 



Dr. Winchester. The lungs are usually right ; but you 

 will sometimes find tubercles in the young animals. 



Mr. Myrick. Can you do anything for it ? 



Dr. Winchester. Yes, sir, a great deal. They gen- 

 erally die, though. [Laughter.] 



Mr. Williams, of Sunderland. I had a case of that kind 

 last spring. I bought a cow and a calf when the calf was 

 about a month old, and it acted as if it didn't care whether 

 it lived or died, and it did die. On opening the calf its lungs 

 were found to be almost entirely gone. I turned the cow 



