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Depaktmext of Agriculture, 



Washington, March 30, 1916. 

 This edition of the Special Report on Diseases of the Horse has 

 been prei)ared in compliance with House Concurrent Resolution Xo. 

 13, passed February 3, 1916, as follows : 



Resolved by the House of Representatives {the Senate conciirrino). That 

 there be printed and bound in cloth one hundred thousand copies of the Special 

 Report on tlie Diseases of tlie Horse, tlie same to be first revised and brought 

 to date, under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture ; seventy tliou«and 

 copies for the use of the House of Representatives and thirty thousand for use 

 of tne Senate. 



Since the original edition issued bv the Department in 1890 several 

 editions have been printed by order of Congress. The work was 

 reprinted in 1896, and revised and reprinted in 1903, 1908, and 1911. 

 In accordance with the foregoing resolution it again has been revised 

 so as to embody the latest practical development of knowledge of the 

 subject. 



D. F. Houston 



Secretary, 



