Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1898 — That Rotten Corn. [ARTICLE]

That Rotten Corn.

Our venerable and very intelligent townsman, W. W. Wishard, wants the farmers to be * warned through the papers of the dangerous nature of this rotted or rather moulded porn, of which there is such a great quantity this year. Mr. Wishard states that from his own knowledge, such corn is poisonous to stock. He has known himself, in former years, many cases of cattle dying from eating such corn, and has been reliably informed of several such cases this present year. He says that farmers, in husking their corn, should not leave this spoiled corn in the field in which they wi§h to turn cattle, after the husking is done; but they should have a separate compartment to their wagon box, or a box fastened on behind, and in this throw the spoiled corn, and then burn it. There is a good deal of this bad corn every place this year, and out on Beaver prairie it is estimated that ten per cent, of the corn is spoiled in that way. In regard to the effects of this mould on stock, we havo consulted Dr. Kannal, the veterinary physician, and he says it produces fever, and also indigestion with resulting stomach and bowel derangements, and in the latter effects often causes death of the animals affected.