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allowing it to run to meadow and then burning it standing, 

 as can easily be done in a country like India, may also be 

 resorted to. If none of these measures are adopted, 

 cattle should be run on it for a year before being 

 re-opened for horses, mules, or donkeys. 



15. Finally, the free use of the microscope 

 cannot be too forcibly impressed upon those who may 

 have to deal with an outbreak of this disease. Much 

 time and unnecessary isolation of animals is saved by an 

 early diagnosis, such as can only be made by the 

 microscope. Material from suspicious wounds should 

 be periodically examined, and even in cases when 

 nothing has been detected at first, further examination 

 may prove the presence of the organisms. 



The disease having been recently scheduled under 

 the Diseases of Animals Acts in Great Britain and 

 Ireland, I am including the orders of the Board of 

 Agriculture on the subject, vide appendix. 



