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4th. That, on the contrary, the bacilli of tuberculosis are 
present and active in a very large proportion of cases in the 
milk of cows affected with tuberbulosis but with no discover¬ 
able lesion of the udder. 
ENTERITIS IN CATTLE CAUSED BY EATING CORN-STALK 
FODDER.* 
By Dr. G. H. Going, State Veterinarian. 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: By request of Hon. Martin 
Mohler, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture for Kan¬ 
sas, I have prepared a statement of what, in my opinion, is the 
cause of the mortality among cattle, when turned out to feed 
in the corn-stalk pasture. That death is caused by acute in¬ 
flammation of the stomach and intestines, is of course quite 
plain. I have made a number of post-mortem examinations 
on cattle after dying as above mentioned, after being allowed 
to feed to repletion upon corn-stalks, and the symptoms present¬ 
ed are invariably the same, viz.: extensive inflammation of the 
alimentary canal and coverings of the brain. When cattle are 
first turned into a corn-stalk pasture they feed voraciously, 
regardless of the disastrous consequences that so frequently 
follow engorgement with this coarse, dry and almost indi¬ 
gestible food. But as this disease is not of a contagious or 
infective nature, I am not permitted at the expense of the 
State to go and personally investigate the symptoms, course 
and termination of cases reported to me by farmers whose 
stock suffer. Therefore I can only advise by letter, giving 
treatment that I have found most successful in cases both 
of this nature among my own cattle and those I have been 
called upon to treat in my capacity as a private practitioner, 
before I entered the service of the State. 
The character of the food, and the habits and condition of 
the animal, operate as direct causes of the disease of the 
alimentary canal. Very rich and concentrated food taken in 
undue quantity, or very innutritious substances, such as over¬ 
ripe straw or hay, or corn-stalks, which being composed al- 
*Read before the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. 
