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brownish. Both these last named kinds, as a rule, contain, in addition to the 
hulls and fibres, other impurities, such as minute particles of iron from the 
presses, etc., and are often, as are all other cakes stored in damp places, im¬ 
pregnated with mold and other organisms, through which poisonous alkaloids 
(ptomaines) seem to form in the cakes to such a degree that their consumption 
may have a fatal effect on cattle. 
The good quality of hulled cakes, the so-calledJAmerican cotton seeds cakes, 
are of a bright yellow color ; if they be of a dark color, they have either been 
pressed while they were too warm, stored in a damp place, or spoilt in some 
other way and therefore of doubtful quality. Well prepared cakes should have 
an agreeable odor, a nutlike sweet taste, be hard and dry. Cakes and meal made 
from sound hulled seeds are eaten with relish, and promote the thrift of all 
domestic animals used for draught or food. 
To milch cows is given daily 3 lbs., sometimes as high as 5 lbs. 
To draught oxen 3 to 4 lbs. 
To oxen for fattening purposes as much as 6 lbs. 
To sheep and swine £ to 1 lb. 
To horses £ lbs. 
Finally, the main inducement for bringing cotton seed cake into widespread 
use, is its cheapness.” 
DISCUSSIONS. 
President Huidekoper having called Secretary Hoskins to the 
Chair, discussion of Dr. Salmon’s paper was invited. There being 
no discussion of Dr. Salmon’s paper, discussion of Dr. Huidekop- 
er’s paper on the Contraction of the Horse’s Foot was called for. 
Dr. Meyer, Sr.: The remarks I have to make on Dr. Salmon’s 
paper are simply to say that I was very much pleased with it. But 
I would like to know what he has to say about Dr. Salmon’s 
statement that these organisms are in the animal’s body, and that 
there are also developments going on in the outer world. I would 
like to know how it is about the germs being developed partly 
in the animal’s body and partly on the outside. 
Dr. Salmon : I do not know that I can add very much to what 
I have already said. What we do not know about Texas fever 
germs would make a very much larger hook than what we do 
know. I have said all we would like to say about it. We do not 
know anything about the life of the germ outside of the body; 
we have not been able to recognize it. I do not know where it 
grows, nor how it grows. We simply know that when a pasture 
is infected with these germs, the infection seems to be intensified as 
the season goes along, and I know that the cattle take the germs 
