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The fact that prolonged vitamin A deficiency in cattle may result in edema as characterized by swelling of the legs, shoulders and brisket, on the abdomen, in the hindquarters and elsewhere has been recognized for some time. This con dition is often referred to as anasarca. Hastings ('41, '44), Cady ('42) and others have more recently called attention, in the popular press, to anasarca in fattening cattle apparently due to vitamin A deficiency in rations of which the grain con sisted principally of yellow corn. Similar cases have been brought to the attention of the Bureau of Animal Industry when distillery slop and low-quality roughages have been fed to fattening cattle. In 1941 our attention (Creech and Madsen, '42; Mohler, '42; and Madsen, '42) was called to a condition characterized by extensive edema of the subcutaneous adipose tissue and musculature of beef carcasses which was encountered by 1Now Head, Department of Animal Husbandry, Utah State Agricultural College.