Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year .. (1849)
United States. Patent Office · Washington : Office of Printers to House of Reps. · leaf 88
t is obvious that the fourth stomach of the calf would be un- DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 5 able to receive and perfectly digest the recently swallowed herbage orhay, without its having previously undergone the process of rumina-tion ; and that each of the other tliree stomachs would be quite as unpre-pared… … The four stomachs of an adult Cow, witli their relative proportions. or hay, a suspension of liealthy functions must necessarily take place,which will ever after more or less affect its successful growth. Whilbon this subject, it may be stated that there is a great diversity in themilk of cows,…
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