DISEASES OF TI1E RESPIRATORY ORGANS. 
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to which we are now alluding does not possess any of those 
objectionable qualities already mentioned as belonging to 
the husks of the whole-seed cake. 
It is of great importance, also, to mention that even the 
decorticated cake, existing as cake, is only broken into 
small fragments with extreme difficulty, a circumstance 
which evidently interferes with the facility of its practical 
applications, and which constitutes one of the objections to 
its use by the farmer. Some manufacturers crush and 
grind the decorticated cake to powder, dry it, and send it 
into the market under the name of “ Patent Kiln-dried Oil- 
meal.” Now, here we have a material which theory and 
practice alike declare possesses feeding-powers not merely 
equal, but superior to those of good linseed-cake ; and it is 
only recently that one of my pupils (Mr. Clarke) at the 
Royal Veterinary College informed me that his father is, 
and had been for some time, in the habit of feeding his 
oxen on decorticated cotton-cake; and such was this gentle¬ 
man’s opinion of the latter material, that he considered 
his stock thrived better on it than upon linseed-cake. I have 
received similar reports from other sources. In conclusion, 
I trust that the information set forth in this paper, although 
not altogether novel, will be, nevertheless, of some slight 
service to the veterinary surgeon, by directing his attention 
to a feeding-material which is gradually gaining notoriety 
amongst the agricultural community, and which, according 
to its kind, may be employed with great advantage ; or may, 
we have good reason for believing, be productive of injury 
or even the death of animals to which it may have been 
given. 
ON SOME OE THE DISEASES OF THE RESPI¬ 
RATORY ORGANS OF THE HOUSE AND 
OTHER ANIMALS. 
By Professor Brown, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
[Continuedfrom vol. xxxvi, p. 717.) 
CATARRHAL AFFECTIONS. 
During our observations upon catarrhal affections, we have 
been compelled to disregard the usual systems of classifica¬ 
tion. Maladies have not arranged themselves according to 
