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should be combined with pulps in the proportion of 0.25 to 0.30 

 per cent. It is important not to use it in excess. Every few 

 days there should be placed at the animal's disposal a salt solu- 

 tion, permitting the animal to use its own discretion as to 

 quantity taken. 



Decomposed, or mildewed cossettes, should never be used for 

 cattle feeding, as the general health of the animals fed would 

 suffer. There would follow colics, swelling of the intestine, 

 cramp, paralysis, etc., due to ptomaines and ferments, from 

 which there is always to be feared a continued action upon the 

 nervous system. 



Arlaing attributes to sour cossettes certain diseases of the ren- 

 net. Stift declares that lactic acid, when present in excess, 

 always means certain complications of the bony tissues. Ac- 

 cording to Gerland, notwithstanding all the water that the cos- 

 settes may contain, soured cossette feeding means diarrhoea only, 

 provided there has been a sudden lowering of temperature of 

 the intestinal tubes. On the other hand, these sour cossettes 

 increase the secretion of the kidneys. 



There certainly are many advantages in using soured cossettes 

 rather than the fresh residuum, as they contain less water. An 

 excessive consumption of cossettes may result in an excessive 

 flow of blood to the brain or spine. Under these circumstances 

 there follow intestinal troubles in the animals, resulting in death, 

 owing to diarrhoea. 



All of these alleged dangers from feeding cossettes do Conclusions as 

 not in any way reduce their actual value and excellent feeding to dangers of 

 qualities taken as a whole and considered as forage, provided, cossette 

 however, they be not fed to excess. It is desirable that the cos- 

 settes be not allowed to undergo any organic transformation 

 during their keeping, the natural fermentation being the limit. 

 Microbes that may be accidentally introduced will bring 

 about complications, and it has been noticed that soured cos- 

 settes are particularly favorable for this bacteriological develop- 

 ment. Many essays have been written which endeavor to 

 demonstrate that it is to this source that we must look for nearly 

 all the diseases that cossette-fed cattle have had to fight against. 

 The technical discoveries in this matter have been such that 

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