426 The Diseases of Animals 
If the spinal cord only is affected the animal fre- 
quently recovers. Laxative food should be provided, and 
iodide of potash in one-dram doses dissolved in water 
maybe given once daily for three or four days. When ~ 
the brain is the seat of the disease, practically all 
eases die, and all methods of treatment so far have 
proved of no value. The auimal should be placed where 
it will be comfortable, and cannot injure itself or other 
unimals, and supplied with soft laxative food, such as 
thin bran mashes. The only treatment is preventive, by 
avoiding the wormy, moldy corn. 
When it is necessary to feed such corn, it should be 
shelled and poured into a tub of water; the diseased 
kernels will float and can be skimmed off. Cattle and 
hogs do not seem to be injured by eating moldy corn. 
MOLDY SILAGE 
In the spring, when the weather becomes warm, silage 
is likely to spoil unless it is in a silo of small diameter, 
so that it can be fed out rapidly. When a silo is first 
opened there is some silage on or near the surface which 
las spoiled. This silage should not be fed, as it may 
cause fatal poisoning. 
In cows there is loss of appetite, constipation and 
weakness, followed later by profuse diarrhea and strain- 
ing, then delirium and death. There is labored breath- 
ing, due to the filling of the lung tissue with gas. 
In horses there is weakness, trembling of the volun- 
tary muscles, difficulty in eating and _ swallowing, 
delirium, and, in most cases, death. 
