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to be congested but healthy, as was the heart, &c. The 
stomach and intestines were free from inflammation, but in 
the former was found a considerable portion of yew leaves and 
small branches of the tree. The condition of the mucous 
coat of the stomach was very peculiar. In places, this coat 
had a blanched appearance, and it could easily be detached 
by the end of the finger. The blood in all the vessels was 
very dark in colour, and a good deal of superficial congestion 
existed. 
The only history which Mr. Taylor could obtain was that 
some boys had broken down the branches of the yew trees 
in the park into which the mare was turned; and that when 
she was taken to the stable in order to be put to work, she 
fell down as if she had been shot, and died instantly. 
FARINACEOUS ALIMENT FROM STRAW. 
“The attention of agriculturists in France has recently 
been directed to the discovery of a method of converting 
straw into a kind of bran. This discovery is claimed by 
two individuals. The first, a miller, near Dijon, who, it is 
said, on trying the mill-stone of a new mill, discovered the 
possibility of converting straw into a nourishing food. The 
second, M. Jose Maitre, of Yilotte, near Chantillon. 
“ This sort of aliment is very excellent when combined with 
a sufficient amount of nutrimental matter, for animals whose 
systems lack the requisite amount of phosphates and phos- 
phoric acids. A milch cow, for example, whose lacteal ves- 
sels yield in the form of milk the above equivalents, may be 
benefited by an occasional feed of straw meal. - ” 
[We can understand that meal of this description, if used 
with judgment as to quantity, but perhaps more especially as 
to frequency, will tend materially to economise the food of 
both horses and cattle, without causing that impairment of 
the digestive and assimilative functions which so frequently 
attends the use of unprepared straw fodder.] 
