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Ccecal and other pouches of the stomach producing irritation, 

 inflammation, ulceration and colic. 



1.054. Frosted food has a tendency to cause abortion, but 

 there is no fear from this in the climate of Bengal. 



1.055. Decomposing mouldy and decayed foods are the 

 most injurious of all, as they are liable to cause septic inflam- 

 mation of the stomach and bowels, and produce diarrhoea and 

 even blood poisoning. Moulds, that is fungi, sometimes 

 cause abortion. 



1.056. Impure water is the most fruitful cause of diarrhoea 

 and dysentery. 



CHAPTER CI. 



UTILITY OF GROWING FODDER CROPS. 



T T is often said, there is no practical advantage in growing 

 fodder crops, that the raiyat will never take to them, and 

 that it is only the cattle of experimental farms and those 

 belonging to some dairy farmers or gowdlds which are fed 

 on fodder crops, the majority of the cattle of the country 

 living on the herbage they can pick up and the straw harvest- 

 ed with the grain crops. That the majority of the cattle of 

 Bengal at least look very miserable, is admitted, but it is said 

 they are hardy and efficient. There is no doubt the native 

 cattle stand the climate better than foreign cattle, which 

 degenerate very rapidly imported into the climate of Bengal, 

 which are the first to succumb when there is any epidemic 

 about, and which are more subject to diseases. But this is 

 due to the indigenous cattle being thoroughly acclimatised 

 and not to their being lean or half-starved. Even in Bengal 

 some cattle are better than others and the better class, which 



