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Show CORN SMUT IS NOT INJURIOUS TO COWS Mo Ill-Effects Shown After Forty-Nine Forty-Nine Day Test at Colorado Experiment Station. (By W. W. ItOBBINS, Colorado Agricultural Agricul-tural College, Fort Collins.) It is a quite common belief that corn smut is Injurious to cattle. Numerous Num-erous experiments have been made to ascertain whether or not this is true. One experimenter started feeding two ounces a day of the smut to each of two cows. Later the amount was increased in-creased to II pounds. The test lasted last-ed 49 days, but no serious results were evident. The cows had a normal milk yield nt the end of the period. Other experiments have given practically prac-tically the same results, so that It may safely lie said that corn smut, cither in the field or in the prepared ration, is not poisonous to cattle. |