Show two that kill pie the indiana state board of tare in a report says wheat and barley beard it not frequently happens that alter hoga have been turned upon wheat and bar ley stubble that some will die the symptoms which the pigs will present are quite variable in some cases it will be an intensely sore mouth in others it will be those of general bowel disturbance and in a third it will be those ot loud and difficult breathing the writer has post mort emed many such cases and found accumulations 0 beards in the mouth stomach or windpipe A roll of beards may form and get down by the side or at the root of the tongue and penetrate the rembrance mem brance the animal can not get rid of them the parts become intensely swollen and inflamed inter fering with eating and star vaton will occur plugs of the beards may lodge at any point between the larynx and bronchi producing loud distressing breathing and coughing the foreign body can not be removed and death takes place from suffocation in the stomach the beards may puncture the walla the injury may be so slight as to cause only a mild inflammation and interference with the appetite tor a short time until the beards become softened and pass on or the In flamma alon may be so severe as to cause death the trouble is one that Is not amenable to treatment except in those cases in which the beard Is in the mouth effects of cockle burrs numerous articles have appeared in the swine breeders journals and agricultural pa feas indicating that young cockle burrs were poisonous pos onous to hogs and calves while the cockle burr Is young nd only three to tour inches high it ps very fleshy and tender and relished aby stock the claims of poisoning of jsoack attracted sufficient attention that the indiana experiment station made a chemical examination and a feeding test to determine the poisonous prop artles but in both the results were negative the young plants stripped of the burrs were fed to calves pigs rabbits and guinea pigs they were allowed all they would eat in no case was any untoward effect noticed we have been called upon to post mor ten some animals claimed to have died from such poisoning and in all cases death was due to burrs A few burrs would be swallowed with the young plants efad their horny prickles would irritate the stomach wall and cause inflammation which finally terminated in death in three cases the burrs lodged in the throat and could not be expelled |