1911 February Footnotes

[1] The omasum, also known as the bible, the fardel, the manyplies and the psalterium, is the third compartment of the stomach in ruminants.

[2] Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809 – 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902. McCormick has been simplistically credited as the single inventor of the mechanical reaper.

[3] Edith Wynne Matthison (1875 – 1955) was an Anglo-American stage actress who also appeared in two silent films.

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