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Show BITS OF WIRE IN COW FEED Lodgment of Small Piece of Metal Is Sure to Cause Injury and Pain to Animal. Many farmers and stock keepers are careless In allowing bits of metal, nails, wire, etc., to get into the manger trough and pails where the cows and calves feed. Cattle are voracious feeders and take up their feed in large mouthfuls, chewing it but little and swallowing, it by wholesale. Hence, nails, pins, small pieces of wire and such like are quite likely to be taken up with the feed and pass Into the stomach or lodge at some point along the channel. Lodgment of a piece of metal Is sure to cause Inflammation and pain to the nnlmal. Usually a pointed piece of metal does not remain long In one place ; every movement of the animal or organ drives It a litle farther In the direction of least resistance, and the result Is that a long line of Inflammation Inflamma-tion and festering is set up in the suffering suf-fering animal. A bad feature of the case is that when a vital organ Is reached by the moving piece of metal death usually follows, and the owner often attributes the loss to some other cause. |