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Investigations concerned with physiology of water-electrolyte metabolism in ruminants were carried out on 9 young animals with isolated innervated abomasal pouches. Samples of abomasal juice were collected at 30-min. Intervals for 5 hours in 68 experiments performed, The abomasal secretion was examined: after 24-hour witholding of drinking water and subsequent watering ad libitum; and after one-hour intravenous infusions of 100 ml of 0,9, 5,0 and 10,0 per cent Na Cl solutions, The volume of the secretion, its pH values, HCl content, and Na, K, Cl, Ca concentrations were determined. Restriction in watering reduced HCl content (by 10.9 per cent) and K concentration (by 11.7 per cent) and elevated the pH values. Watering the thursty animals led to an increase of the juice volume (by 22 per cent) and contents of HCl and K, and raised temporarily the pH values (1.75). Infusions of isotonic NaCl solution (0.9 per cent) stimulated the abomasal secretion. This was manifested by an increase in juice volume and contents of HCl and K. After infusion of a 10 per cent NaCl solution, a decline in the abomasal secretion evidenced by a diminution in juice volume and contents of HCl and K, was observed.