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closely resembles and fowl typhoid. The/diagnosis is made from the 
bacteriological examinations. As the virus of fowl plague does not 
affect rabbits, these animals are of value in differentiating it from fowl 
cholera. The rapid course of the disease cannot be relied upon as a 
differential character, for both fowl cholera and fowl] typhoid often run 
very rapid courses and likewise have a high mortality. 
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CORNSTALK DISEASE IN CATTLE 
_ Characterization. The name “‘cornstalk disease’ was given to a 
somewhat mysterious affection from which cattle sometimes suffered 
while feeding in cornstalk fields late in the fall and early winter. The 
meaning generally accepted and intended to be conveyed by this term 
