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the left temporal bone — veritable farcy buds. On percussion, dullness 

 was manifest over the inferior lobe of the left lung; respiration was 

 accelerated. There was also a discharge of tl)ick; viscid matter from 

 the left eye, and swelling and partial protrusion of the membrane nic- 

 titaus. 1 was told that this horse had been coughing, more or less, for 

 a year. 



The next one which was led out for examination was a six-year-old 

 bay mare, also belonging to Joseph Cheesman. She had a discharge 

 from the right nostril, wiiich was of a very gluey character, adhering 

 around the margin of the nares, numerous small characteristic glan- 

 ders ulcers on the septum nasi, and enlargement of the submaxillary 

 lymphatic glands on tlie corresponding side. Both hind legs were 

 edematous and presented swelliug and tumors along the lymphatics, ex- 

 tending from the hock upwards to the inguinal region ; the inguinal 

 glands also were enlarged, hard, and sensitive to touch. 



The third animal examined was a gray horse, fifteen years of age, be- 

 longing to Alexander Cheesman. He had a discharge from the left 

 nostril ; a hard swelling — the size of a walnut — of the left submaxillary 

 lymphatics; a few small circumscribed tumors distributed over the sur- 

 face of the body — farcy buds. This horse presented no visible nasal 

 ulcerations. I examined two other horses, which have been in the same 

 stable with the affected ones, but could discover no evidence of disease 

 in either of them. Mr. A. Cheesman told me that a four-year-old mule 

 died in the same stable in the month of March, and that she presented 

 symptoms similar to the first horse that I examined. I pronounced the 

 three horses to be affected with glanders and urged the owners to have 

 them destroyed ; but they did not promise to follow my advice, unless 

 they could get some recompense from the county or State. On the 10th 

 of November I addressed a letter to Hon. G. W. Click, governor of the 

 State of Kansas, stating to him how I found those horses affected, and 

 requesting him (in the absence of a State board of health) to take the 

 matter in hand if he had any authority to order the destruction of such 

 diseased animals. In reply I received from him the following answer : 



I have no authority under the laws of this State to do anything in relation to the 

 diseased horses of which you write, but I shall call the attention of the county attor- 

 ney to the matter and see whether he can do anything by communicating with the 

 parties to induce thorn to kill their diseased stock. 



HOG CHOLERA, OR SWINE PLAGUE. 



Having heard that hog cholera proved very fatal to hogs in the vicin- 

 ity of Mulvane, Sumner County, Kansas, I left Harper on the morning 

 of the . ii and arrived at Mulvane in the evening. There I saw Mr. E. 

 F. Osbon . He informed me that Mr. Rucker, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. 

 Smith had suffered heavy losses this yeat by the death of their hogs. 

 Next morning I saw Mr. A. A. Rucker, who resides three-quarters of 



