lGi The Management and Treatment of the Horse, 



inmate, and frequently great havoc is wrought among 

 the horses in consequence. Many horses become 

 affected with glanders by being put into a stall in which 

 a glandered horse has been standing ; this is often the 

 case in a livery stable. The glandered horse is bought 

 at a fair or market and brought to a livery stable to be 

 fed, the pus from its nostrils drops into the manger and 

 the next horse that is fed out of the same manger becomes 

 innoculated with the pus ; especially if it happens to 

 have a slight scratch upon his muzzle, and it comes in 

 contact with the crib on which the mucous of the 

 glandered animal has been left, and is thus carried into 

 the circulation of the blood. All stalls, and especially 

 public stables, should have high divisions between them 

 to prevent the muzzles of horses coming in contact with 

 each other. Horses being very apt to smell each other 

 indeed it is by this faculty alcre they recognise each other 

 and distinguish their companions. From an ill-judged 

 piece of economy many persons, after being aware that one 

 of their horses is glandered, persist in keeping it in the 

 same stable with others and by so doing is every hour 

 risking all they possess. It is the duty of every person 

 as soon as he is certain of his horse having caught this 

 disease to destroy it as speedily as possible, for although 

 a glandered horse may be able to work for a considerable 

 time under the influence of this disorder, he will find 

 ultimately that it is a bad piece of economy to keep it. 

 Many persons who have lost horses by this disease have 

 resorted to extremes to prevent a continuance of it, 

 Some have gone so far as to pull down the stable, and 

 others have taken out all the internal fittings^ putting one 



