or imaginary charges. The
indictments we have found against them are all true bills,
against which too many of them will be unable to sustain the
plea of not guilty. We have been constrained to our present
course by an overmastering sense of the importance of greater
care, deeper thought, and closer union in pushing forward one of
the greatest industries of the day. I am confident that before
another step can be taken in advance it must be preluded by a
correction of the errors which we have feebly attempted to
portray, all of which lie outside and prior to the factory. As a
body, cheese-makers can do little better than they are now
doing, until there is some improvement in the material upon
which they are called upon to exercise their skill, and the
practice of crimination and recrimination, the factorymen
tossing the blame upon the dairymen and the dairymen upon the
factorymen, which is made use of to conceal the real source of
our mistakes, will continue to shield him from the eyes of a
discriminating public until the care and diligence of dairymen
strip him of this shelter and drive him forward on the march to
improvement.

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VETERINARY

Impaction of the Paunch.

Impaction of the paunch (the first stomach or rumen) in cattle,
sometimes also called grainsick or mawbound, differs from bloating or
hoove, mainly thereby that the distention is more solid than gaseous, it
being either with food alone, or with food and gas. Symptomatically it
differs also from hoove by the absence of eructation, and by the
hardness of the flanks and the smaller volume of the swelling. It arises
from gorging with almost any kind of food, even with grain or with
chaff, at a sudden change of diet; but it is particularly liable to
arise from a surfeit of turnips, fresh grass, or any other succulent
food at the commencement of the season. The instrument called a probang
ought to be introduced, either to decide whether the case be one of
hoove or one of mawbound,