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ings. The quarters were good as regards the build- 

 ing, while the care taken of her could not have been 

 better. After six months' stay, she developed the 

 disease in its sub-acute form, but recovered partially 

 without treatment and lived some years afterwards. 



Case ii. In another instance there were a num- 

 ber of horses shipped to a gulf bordering state, inten- 

 ded for track purposes also, and receiving their food 

 from the same source; the quantity and kind corre- 

 sponding for each, and likewise with that in the case 

 of the colt, but the water was obtained from a well 

 on the premises. One of the number developed the 

 trouble in an acute form by midwinter, which by 

 the way is very mild comparatively in that country, 

 and recovered partially afterwards. I knew of the 

 occurrence in a sucking colt, running in a pasture 

 with its mother which gained her existence from 

 the grasses which the field afforded, and watered at 

 will from a stream crossing one corner of the lot. 

 The colt made a partial recovery but was unfortu- 

 nate enough to die from a kick inflicted by a com- 

 panion in its two-year-old form. 



Case in. There is a private barn in one of the 

 southern cities which was erected in 1844, on the bor- 

 ders of a large marsh lying within a few hundred 

 feet of its doors. It contains six horses which are 

 used daily for draft purposes, their food being hay, 

 oats, corn and bran, and the water is obtained from 



