ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



by the cows eating too much dried corn stalks. I presume this 

 dry stuff going into their paunch and mixing with the water 

 therein causes it to swell up, and therefore distresses them. 

 That is supposed to be the cause of the disease, and a great many 

 cattle are lost annually by dairy farmers that feed only dry 

 corn stalks to their cattle. 



A Delegate : — I think that is impaction of the stomach. 

 That is not corn disease, is it? 



Mr. Glover: — I presume impaction is a better name than 

 corn stalk disease. You feed corn stover, which is corn stalks 

 without the corn, and invariably you will find cows having 

 impaction; meaning that the cows have become costive, and 

 the only way is to give them an injection of water in the rectum 

 and a dose of epsom salts. I found cows in Illinois troubled 

 with corn stalk disease and with impaction, and the veterinary 

 invariably gave epsom salts. And I would suggest to the owner 

 that he feed a little oil meal in connection with the stover. 

 Bran would help, and water and salt. 



Air. Wiggins: — There is another side to that, that I am 

 afraid some men are liable to get confused on. That hemor- 

 rhagic septicaemia is supposed by the best veterinaries to be 

 entirely a germ disease. 



Mr. Mason : — In Illinois, is not more money lost in the 

 lack of proper care and feeding than there is in the breeding of 

 the cow? 



Mr. Glover : — I think there is : yes, sir. 



A Delegate : — Do you mean to say that everybody in Jeffer- 

 son county, Wisconsin, is weighing the product of each cow ? 



Mr. Glover : — Xot everybody ; but many of their breeders 

 are weighing and testing each cow's milk. 



A Delegate: — Do they weigh every day? 



Mr. Glover: — Some of them weigh every day, and some 

 of them test every month, and some of them weigh and sample 

 every seventh week, and then estimate their yearly products. 



