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years. It is through the purchase of such an animal as 

 this that the disease is brought onto the farm, such 

 animals also serving to spread the trouble through the 

 infection of mangers and watering troughs. 



FIG. 1 6. GLANDERS. 



Sores formed by the breaking of the farcy buds. 

 Note the swollen condition of the leg. (After 

 Reynolds.) 



Symptoms of the disease. The acute form of the dis- 

 ease is rare in the horse but common in the mule and 

 ass. In the chronic form the development is usually 

 slow and insidious. There is generally a -discharge of 



