502 CORNSTALK DISEASE IN CATTLE 
bacteria which is usually found in a form of interstitial pneumonia and 
the matter was dropped. 
A single experiment was made at Champaign, I]l., in 1889, in which 
the etiological importance of corn smut was tested with negative 
results. A bacteriological examination of the organs from an animal 
that died in a cornstalk field, supposedly of this disease, was made with 
negative results by Burrill in 1889. 
In 1892, Moore investigated this disease but was unable to find any 
definite cause for it. The lesions in the animals that he examined 
immediately after death correspond very closely to those of septicemia 
hemorrhagica. The frequent appearance of this disease tends to the 
conclusion that while cattle pasturing in corn fields late in the fall 
may now and then die suddenly from various causes, perhaps from 
eating too many cornstalks, the disease that produces the more 
serious losses heretofore attributed to cornstalk disease may be 
septicemia hemorrhagica. 
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1. Brtures. The cornstalk disease in cattle. Bulletins No. 7, 8, 9 and 10. 
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especial relation to contagious pleuro-pneumonia in American beeves in England. 
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