Food for starving cattle on the plains by Boynton John F

Author:Boynton, John F. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Silage
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., Columbia press
Published: 1884-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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LIVING DUST.

A!l bay, grains and dried vegetables, bave more or less dust upon tbem, wbich on disturbing the hay, etc., rises and fills the air, is taken in by the breath and consumed by the cattle together with the hay and other vegetable fodder.

Now the larger proportion of this dust, is living dust, and is made up of microscopic germs of fungi and spores which excite fermentation in vegetable infusions. Nine-tenths of the dust arising from poorl\^ cured hay, is found on miscroscopic examination to be composed of spores, which when fed to cattle in large quantities are liable to produce disease.

Rust, ergot and other fungoids on rye, smut on oats, wheat and corn, the various blights and destructive mildews on grasses and other vegetable growths; all these are but congregated masses of disease-producing spores.

Diseases of cattle, and even of man, are known to follow and correspond with the seasons when the various smuts and mildews of grains and other vegetable growths prevail ; in other words, past observations have revealed the fact that the diseases of cattle follow the fungoid condition of their fodder.

Musty and mouldy hay that fills the barn with living dust, or the dust that may become alive when warmed by animal heat, and vivified by the juices of the body, bring about many of the diseases of the animal (perhaps even the untimely casting of the calf), the immediate causes of which are to be found on our own premises, and in our own neighborhood, and should not always be considered as epidemic, or as arising from atmospheric changes.

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