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Dr. Milnes: Perhaps it is possible that females in the par¬ 
turient state are more susceptible than males. 
Dr. Moore : That may be the case, but we must not forget 
that in these animals symptoms developed two or three weeks 
after parturition. 
Dr. Milnes: The symptoms are somewhat similar to those 
in horses suffering from crotalism, in which there is staggering 
gait, enfeebled eyesight, emaciation, and loss of appetite, which 
condition extends over a period from three months to eighteen 
months. I have known cases to die at the end of three months. 
Crotalaria sagittalis grows in the Missouri river bottoms in 
western Iowa, and is acquired by the animals both from feeding 
in the pastures and from hay. 
Dr. Verschelden; All of these cases that I saw were in the 
town of St. Mary’s, being dairy cows. No cases were seen in 
the country about; and the home cows were fed on slops and 
refuse of the city mills. 
Dr. Ernst: I will state that in Leavenworth some of the 
people fed mill stuff, consisting of the imperfect kernels of 
corn, and the chaff, and the cob, and so forth, to the horses and 
cattle, and it produced a condition called stomach staggers in 
the horses. I never saw anything of the kind in cattle. It 
was so well understood that this stomach staggers was produced 
by this mill stuff that the people no longer feed it to horses, 
but still use it for feed for the cattle. 
Adjourned to meet in St. Joseph, Mo., in December. 
Dr. J. S. Kelly, Secretary. 
VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW 
YORK COUNTY. 
The regular monthly and annual meeting was called to or¬ 
der in the Lecture-Room of the New York-Ameriean Veterinary 
College, on the evening of Dec. 6, 1899, by President Rob¬ 
ertson. After roll-call, the minutes of the previous meeting 
were read and approved. 
Report of Board of Censors. —Dr. Clayton, Chairman, re¬ 
ported favorably upon three names proposed for membership, as 
follows: Archer Edward Parry, D. V. S., A. V. C., 1890; 
vouchers, Robert W. Ellis and H. D. Hanson ; Thomas J. Ogle, 
D. V. S., A. V. C., 1897 ; vouchers, Theo. Keller and H. D. 
Gill, and August H. Drucker, D. V. S., A. V. C., 1894, pro¬ 
posed by Robert Dickson. Drs. Parry and Ogle were elected 
to membership. Dr. Drucker was very favorably recommended 
