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Mr. Boyd: "In a native pasture you will find seven distinct 

 plants to the square inch. Now, I will tell you the trouble with 

 your sowing, if you will occupy the land with good seed you 

 will not have any weeds." 



Mr. Periam: "Two hundred and forty distinct plants have 

 been found in England to the square foot." 



Mr. Grossman: "Mr. Boyd, will the orchard grass sown in 

 the fall keep the weeds down during the next season?" 



Mr. Boyd: "Sure as you live, you won't find any weeds in 

 that deal. You won't get a first-class crop the first year, but 

 you will get a crop." 



MILK FEVER IN COWS. 



By Dona.ld McIntosh, D. V. S., Professor of Veterinary Sci- 

 ence, in the University of Illinois : 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Association: Last 

 spring I published a short article on the above subject. Since 

 that time I have received a number of letters from different par- 

 ties who had occasion to use my prescription, thanking me for 

 publishing so effective a remedy. Their cows, said they, had all 

 the symptoms described as peculiar to this malady; they gave 

 the medicine as directed and their animals got well. This, there- 

 ore, has prompted me to send you this short paper on the same 

 subject, believing some of you may not have seen the former 

 article, and also that I might be able to impress upon your 

 minds the great value of this remedy to the dairyman and those 

 keeping good cows. 



This is a disease peculiar to the cow. Gamgee and others 

 who have written on this subject are of the opinion that there is 

 present in the blood a specific element. Some attribute the dis- 

 ease to accumulations of milk— producing elements in the blood, 

 giving rise to fever, and practically, blood poisoning —the sudden 

 overloading of the system with blood, causing nervous disorder. 

 Again, another says that at the period of parturition, when the 

 act is rapidly accomplished, a large excess of blood is thrown 



