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more about it until four days later, when on going - into the 
stable in the morning he found the five as before mentioned. 
I asked what he was feeding, and he said malt dust and clover 
hay were all that they were getting. Asked him in what 
quantity he was feeding the malt; he said that he had been 
feeding it all winter with corn meal, but his corn running out 
about a month before had been since then feeding the malt 
alone; was feeding one ton ever}^ ten days to twenty-seven 
cattle, soaking each feed for twelve hours in three hundred 
quarts of water. I looked at hay and malt, but could see 
nothing wrong with either, or anything about the barn or 
yai d, as everything was clean. I, thinking the trouble arose 
from feeding malt too heavily, had it discontinued, and 
gave the cows tonics. I looked at the rest of the herd out 
in the lot before going away ; they appeared to be all right. 
Did not see them on the 13th. On morning of 14th the 
owner was at my office at 6 a.m. reporting eight more affect¬ 
ed in the same manner. I advised him to send for State 
Veterinarian Bridge, which he did. I got to his place about 
10 A.M. He had turned the cows out into the lot. I looked 
them over and found the whole twenty-seven more or less 
affected, two not being able to get out of the stable, one 
down, not able to get upon her feet, but was eating ; was 
very hungry; gave her a bucket of water ; drank it down 
without any trouble in the least; gave another bucket; drank 
it; wanted more ; gave her some dry bran ; licked at it as 
any healthy cow would. Her temperature and respiration 
were normal, pulse weak. The other, apparently the weaker 
of the two, could get up and down ; was hungry and thirsty 
as was the first. 
In looking at cows in field they would be eating grass, 
then all at once stop, stamp their feet, kick at belly, then 
start to run as if bees were stinging them ; would elevate tail 
over back and run this way a few minutes, then stop and go 
to eating again. They did this every five or ten minutes. 
Others not so bad would stamp their feet; did nothing for 
them. Dr. Bridges came on the 16th, examined and diag_ 
nosed the trouble to be in the clover hay, which was at once 
