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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
elusion a short review of what has been learned by experiment 
may not seem superfluous here. 
The best material has been found to be the cakes made from 
the pressed, hulled seeds. A large part of the hull is a com¬ 
paratively indigestible substance and they should never be fed 
exclusively as a substitute for hay. Cattle should always be grad¬ 
ually accustomed to this food and in any form it should never be 
fed alone, but always dry and mixed with other forms of fodder. 
DISCUSSION ON DR. F. C. M’CURDY’S PAPER. 
Dr. Stewart: It was rather unfortunate that I was ap¬ 
pointed to open the discussion on this paper for the reason that 
I have not had opportunity to acquire a definite knowledge of 
the disease as it appears in animals in this section, neither have 
I had any experience in treating it. I am very much interested 
in the paper, however, and have seen two or three bunches of 
cattle suffering from what was said to be over-feeding with 
cotton seed meal. The paper laid very considerable stress upon 
the lesions found in the eyes, and I must say the eye lesions are 
quite prominent and sure to attract attention. The external 
lesions are similar to those found in contagious ophthalmia of 
cattle, with this difference : that the opacities in contagious 
ophthalmia are circular and centrally located on the cornea and 
enclosed with an inflammatory ring or zone, while in the dis¬ 
ease produced by cotton seed the opacities are centrally located 
but elongated in the direction of the margins of the eyelids 
and do not have an acute inflammatory zone surrounding them. 
My observations differ somewhat from that of the author’s in 
that in many cases which I saw there was considerable tearing, 
the tears producing wet streaks adown the face, commencing at' 
the inner canthus of each eye. It is generally understood in 
the section where cotton seed meal is largely used that it is one 
of the best agents with which to fatten cattle, but intelligent - " 
feeders are aware that if fed too long the cattle will cease to 
lay on fat and that serious disturbances of health will develop. 
If memory serves me correctly, Dr. Cary wrote a short article 
several years ago relative to the value of cotton seed as food for 
swine, in which he made the statement that if swine were fed 
too long on it there would develop a form of scurvy as well as 
other constitutional disorders. 
Dr. Bennett: In this connection I would say that some 
weeks ago I observed about twenty-three head of cattle that 
came into Kansas City stock yards. Upon investigation I 
learned that these cattle came from below the quarantine line, 
