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other odd troubles. As the quack who formerly 

 did his work was in the habit of charging him out- 

 rageous fees, we had no trouble in making his bill 

 equal ours for livery hire. 



I remember that for one period of about three 

 or four weeks our livery bill was around seventy 

 dollars, every bit of which he took out in veteri- 

 nary services during the same period of time. 



After we got a good start, we would cover a 

 certain territory every week, and we soon had 

 cases under treatment in all parts of that district. 

 The farmers seemed to take it as a regular cus- 

 tom; they were accustomed to such veterinary 

 visits, which had been made in this manner by 

 quacks for many years. Before we left, we knew 

 every road for fifteen miles in all directions and 

 knew nearly every farmer living around there. In 

 a few directions we worked as far as twenty miles 

 from town. 



We also got a chance at those horses working 

 on the dam; but we were "double-crossed" on the 

 job, as I will explain later. 



We encountered a few conditions in this part of 

 Idaho which were entirely new to us. The most 

 common, and yet the most interesting of these, 

 was lupinosis among horses. 



Almost without exception these cases occurred 

 in young horses that had been pastured on alfalfa 

 for a few weeks. It begins with a very severe 

 form of scours; the evacuations are very watery 

 and occur frequently. Within a few days the 

 horse, although he keeps on eating as a rule, is 

 wasted away to a skeleton. He gets "wabbly," 



