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most entirely of woody fiber and silicon, will cause enteritis. 
This effect is due more to the action of these substances as 
foreign bodies, which are not subject to the digestive action 
of the secretions of the mouth, stomach and bowels, than to 
the want of other elements necessary to life and the perpet¬ 
uation of health. The digestive function failing to perform 
its work, the contents of the stomach and bowels become a 
cause of severe inflammation in which nature’s recuperative 
powers too often prove unequal to the emergency; especially 
is this the case where cattle are not thoroughly habituated 
to the use of unwholesome food. I am fully convinced that 
the whole cause of the trouble in the cases where cattle die 
after being turned out among corn-stalks to feed, is due to the 
indigestibility and the large quantity of food ingested. 
My personal experience while in the cattle business was 
that by allowing the cattle to remain only one hour a day 
among the stalks until their stomachs became accustomed to 
the work required of them, and allowing plenty of pure water, 
no cattle were lost. After being handled in this way for 
about ten days, I consider it safe to turn them permanently 
out among the stalks. 
When cattle are allowed to engorge themselves with un¬ 
masticated and only partly masticated food, especially when 
it is of a coarse, cellulose character, it becomes impacted in 
the paunch (rumen, first stomach), or maniply (third stomach), 
or both. The animal is then unable to regurgitate the con¬ 
tents for the second and final mastication, which is the cud 
chewing process. As a consequence, this body of compressed 
material, acting like a thorn in the flesh, creates an inflam 
mation, which, without timely and proper medical treatment, 
results in fatal termination. This inflammation upon the mu¬ 
cous membrane of the stomach extends from contiguity of tis¬ 
sues to the muscular coats, and then on to the intestines, and 
finally to the peritoneum, setting up a peritonitis involving the 
entire contents of the abdominal cavity. This extensive and 
severe inflammation is sufficient to involve by sympathy the 
membrance of the brain, and the unmistakable symptoms of 
meningitis are observed. The affection is usually followed 
