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among horses all over the country, and one cannot be 

 too careful when buying a horse to make certain that it 

 is not suffering from the disease. Again, in bringing 

 valuable animals into contact with other horses it is well 

 to be on the lookout for signs of the affliction. This is 

 especially true in using corrals, stables and feed yards 

 throughout the West, where there is a constant stream 

 of horses coming and going all the time, eating from 

 the same feed-boxes, and watering from the same 

 troughs. 



There are two forms of the disease; glanders and 

 farcy. It is called glanders when the disease makes 

 its outbreaks in the nostrils, throat and lungs. Farcy 

 comes in the shape of small ulcers or boils which appear 

 most frequently on the lips, neck, shoulders and inside 

 the thighs, and may also be found elsewhere. These are 

 called farcy "buds" and may be from the size of a pea 

 to that of a walnut. 



The average horse dealer and country "hoss" doctor 

 talks of "fearcy" as a trouble quite apart from glanders, 

 and also affects to laugh at glanders, calling it simply 

 chronic catarrh, influenza or cold in the head, and as- 

 sures one that it is easily cured and not contagious. The 

 truth is that glanders and farcy are one and the same 

 disease. Both are highly infectious not only to horses 

 but to man. Both are incurable, and may exist in an 

 animal for years without causing death, while spreading 

 the trouble far and wide among other horses with which 

 it comes in contact. 



If a horse has a bad discharge from the nostrils, keep 

 it away from all other stock, feed and water it separate- 

 ly and in every way protect the others from it. One 

 should be careful how one handles it, as if glanders is 



