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THE habit of bone-sucking in cattle (NATURE, vol. xx. p. 457) is not peculiar to Natal. The learned Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Whately, many years since made a most interesting communication to the then existing Dublin Natural History Society on this subject, and stated his observation that animals addicted to bone-sucking invariably fell into an unhealthy state unless the bone was removed from the field. There is a scarcity of limestone, as Mr. Donovan suggests, with us to account for this “bad habit,” for such the Archbishop considered it.
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FRAZER, W. Bone-Sucking—A Habit of Cattle. Nature 21, 12 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021012c0
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