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Mr. Meigs read from Youatt, his account of a new cattle disease 

 in England, in 1840-41. 



Dr. Gardner. — Butchers say that the western cattle have saggy 

 livers; that they are mottled like sage cheese. 



Chailes Henry Hall. — What is called milk sickness at the \Yest is 

 a very bad disease in cows. It is doubtless owing to some peculiar 

 food which they get occasionally. 



R. B. Brown. — The milk sickness seems to be more gentral in 

 portions of Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois. Their Legislatures have of- 

 fered large rewards for a remedy. Indiana has (I think) offered 

 twenty thousand dollars; Illinois ten thousand. The milk of most of 

 these COW'S has proved to be poisonous. This disease appears only at 

 certain seasons and in certain fields; probably there is some cause in 

 the early spring vegetation, for it disappears when vegetation is in 

 full vigor. Cows taken with it invariably die. 



Dr. Gardner. — In the distilleries they say that nearly every cow 

 gets diseased on entering the establishment. They have no exercise, 

 the hoof elongates like the finger nails of Chinese ladies. To cure 

 this they turn the cows out of doors to air and pasture. 



Chairman. — Lewis & Johnson's patent box churn is here. The 

 operation of it was then exhibited on sour milk. Butter was pro- 

 duced in about five minutes. 



For next meeting. — The Cow Disease continued, and, on motion 

 of Mr. Elliot, the Planting of Wheat. 



The Club adjourned. 



September 5, 1848. 



Mr. De Peyster in the Chair ; H. Mkigs, Secretary. 



Mr. Meigs read a translation made by him from the Annales De 

 La Societe Centrale D'Horticulture De Paris, 1848, which will ap- 

 pear in our next number. 



