REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DISEASE. 
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One cow discharged blood-red urine. They were about three 
weeks in recovering. I treated with laxatives internally and 
antiseptics locally, and took milk with milk tubes. All re¬ 
covered, but some very slowly, and 1 was obliged to give 
three quarts of linseed oil to one before the faeces became 
normal. I had never met with such a case before, and was 
at a loss for a name; but on conversing with friends, was in¬ 
formed that the symptoms were those of poisoning by eating 
‘buckeye.’ Owing to the fact that the cows were all in the 
pasture on the river bottoms, and grass but slightly started, 
I am inclined to the belief that the cows were so affected.” 
Dr. R. S. Mayo, of the Kansas State Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, issued a very interesting article in May, 1895 ( Bulletin , 
No. 49), treating of several cases of cattle poisoning by ni¬ 
trate of potash, contained in corn fodder. It appears that 
the corn stalks were very highly charged with this salt, and 
many of the cattle that ate this fodder died with all the symp 
toms of acute gastro-enteritis. 
LOUISIANA. 
Dr. W. H. Dalrymple, of Baton Rouge, reports as fol¬ 
lows : 
“With regard to the prevalence of contagious and infec¬ 
tious diseases in this State, I may mention the fact that, so 
far as I am aware, the only diseases of that class which 
trouble us, and that only occasionally, are, anthrax and glan¬ 
ders. The former principally among mules on the sugar sec¬ 
tions of the Mississippi bottoms, frequently due, in my opin¬ 
ion, to infection of pastures and forage, or grain, from the 
improper disposal of charbonous carcasses or excrement from 
charbonous animals. To illustrate, I attended an outbreak 
of anthrax on a sugar plantation two or three months ago, 
and I am firmly of the opinion that the spores were intro¬ 
duced on the place in rice-bran which was being fed. 1 he 
rice, more than likely, having been on a previously infected 
place. 
“ Glanders, in every outbreak that I have attended, I have 
succeeded in tracing to other animals imported from other 
States. Unfortunately, as yet, we have had no legislation 
