f the urinary solids from their state of solution.

The known results of feeding cattle a generous or forcing ration in which
phosphate of lime is present to excess adds additional force to the view
just advanced. In the writer's experience, the Second Duke of Oneida, a
magnificent product of his world-famed family, died as the result of a too
liberal allowance of wheat bran, fed with the view of still further
improving the bone and general form of the Duchess strain of Shorthorns.
Lithotomy was performed and a number of stones removed from the bladder and
urethra, but the patient succumbed to an inflammation of the bowels,
induced by the violent purgatives given before the writer arrived, under
the mistaken idea that the straining had been caused by intestinal
impaction. In this case not only the Second Duke of Oneida, but the other
males of the herd as well, had the tufts of hairs at the outlet of the
sheath encased in hard, cylindroid sheaths of urinary salts, precipitated
from the liquid as it ran over them. The tufts were in reality resolved
into a series of hard, rollerlike bodies, more or less constricted at
intervals, as if beaded.

When it is stated that the ash of the whole grain of wheat is but 3 per
cent, while the ash of wheat bran is 7.3 per cent, and that in the case of
the former 46.38 per cent of the ash is phosphoric acid, and in that of the
latter 50 per cent, it can easily be understood how a too liberal use of
wheat bran should prove dangerous if fed dry. The following table shows the
relative proportion of ash and phosphoric acid in wheat bran and in some
common farm seeds:

_Ash and phosphoric acid in bran and some common farm seeds._

--------------------+----------+-------------+---------------
Kind of grain. | Ash. | Phosphoric | Phosphoric
| |acid in ash. | acid in the
| | | entire feed.
--------------------+----------+-------------+---------------
|_Per cent_| _Per cent_ | _Per cent_
Wheat bran | 7.3 | 50 | 3.65
Wheat, grain | 3 | 46.38 | 1.3914
Oats, grain | 2.50 | 26.5 | .6625
Barley, grain | 3.10 | 39.6 | 1.2276
Bean, grain | 3.10 | 31.9 | .9864
Peas, grain | 2.75 | 34.8 | .957
Tare, grain | 3