94 PLANT DISEASE 



of the sugar belt near Runnymede. The 

 report, which is well authenticated, does not 

 charge the quails with actually swallowing the 

 rails, but it does say that they pick away their 

 particles wherever they find a rusty spot where 

 they are loosened. 



" From several points in the State comes the 

 report of holes found in the steel rails, and in 

 cases they are large enough to seriously weaken 

 the material. Where a rusty spot starts and 

 is picked out, it naturally holds moisture, 

 continues to rust, to be again picked at, and so 

 the work of destruction goes on. 



" Railway engineers really believe that the 

 quails take the iron tonic because they are not 

 well, and find that it relieves their distress." 

 New York Herald, December 23, 1900." 



FLUKE 



In Sheep, by Youatt, on page 450, under 

 " Fluke, or Rot," we read 



" The ova are continually swallowed by the 

 sound animals and the diseased ; but it is 

 only when the fluids are altered, and some- 

 times essentially changed, and the condition of 



