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temper, even whilst they appear in perfect 

 health, and therefore able to endure the fatigue 

 of a long journey. 



Now, in order to avoid exciting the incuba- 

 tion of the typhus during their transit either 

 to Finland, Holland, France, or England, it 

 must never be forgotten that these animals 

 are gifted with a nervous sensibility of won- 

 derful acuteness, joined to the weakest vital 

 resistance. Care must be taken to husband 

 their strength, to give them a choice distribu- 

 tion of food easy of assimilation ; barley-meal, 

 or other grains, must be mixed up with their 

 drink; they must be protected from the 

 changes of weather ; they must have room 

 enough and air enough in the locomotive 

 stalls on the railway trains and on board ship. 



We pass over in silence the hygienic mea- 

 sures to be taken in order to keep these 

 vehicles of transit in a proper sanitary state : 

 the sanitary police regulations inserted further 

 on will make them sufficiently known. 



All these measures having been taken to 

 meet and withstand distant causes and dan- 

 gers, let us now direct our attention to those 

 local causes which strike our eyes, and which 



