Show cud ad stomach of the cow A writer in forest and stream aya the food Is received into the first stomach passes into the second and finally into the fourth where it la digested simple facts are these the food Is hastily swallowed and goes into the rumen or large sac which has a capacity of several bushela connected with the rumen or large sac Is the commonly called the honeycomb on account of its eel ullar lining and this Is a mere ad junca ol 01 the rumen and appears to serve the purpose mostly 0 a reser voir of water by which the food Is moistened and reduced to a fine pulp between the leaves ol 01 the next corn apartment part ment called the or many piles so called because of the numer ous leaves with which it Is furnished and between which the food Is ground into a soft semi fluid pulp from this the food pa into the or true digestion stomach in which it Is partly dissolved by the gastric fluid here secreted now let us go back to the food has swallowed by a ruminating ani mal right at the junction of the first divisions is a curious bit of machinery called the esophageal groove this Is a small sac or tube a few inches in length which connects the first and second divisions of the stomach with the third this groove bas a slit in it through which the hastily eaten food moistened by the water in the ls forced by a contraction of the stomach easily visible when the cow is ruminating into this small canal and by a process of regurgitation Is carried to the mouth toils small quantity of food Is the cud it Is simply a wad of food forced as described into the mouth where it is chewed in leisure and with evident comfort and pleasure by the healthy animal being reduced to a semi fluid condition it Is swallowed and goes to the or on account of its numerous leaves be tween which it Is macerated into a fluid which then goes into the fourth part of the stomach where it is mixed with the gastric fluid the solvent of the food and then becomes nutriment completely when acted on by the bile in the duodenum |