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Treatment. Proper adjustment of the harness and use of good pads will 

 prevent these. Gradual work and good care in the spring will prepare the 

 body for the harder work. 



Cold water rubs, after the saddle or harness is taken off, will prove a fine 

 preventive. 



Two eggs in a pint of witch hazel is fine to rub on the gall. In well 

 developed cases, the tumor can be cut off and treated with good results. 



Fracture. 



This is a break in a bone and is one of the most serious conditions to 

 which an animal may become subject. There are many forms of fracture, and 

 the displacements always call for the service of a good veterinarian. They 

 are generally caused by external violence. 



Symptoms. The most positive symptom is the inability of the horse to 

 use the part. Make a close examination ; if a grating sound is heard, or a 

 bunch appears on the injured part, a fracture has likely taken place. 



Treatment. Call a competent veterinarian to take care of the injury. The 

 rapidity with which a fracture will heal depends on the age of the animal. 

 Old animals with broken limbs had better be shot. Young valuable animals 

 can be rigged up in a sling until the fracture heals. The animal must not be 

 allowed to use the injured part. 



Glanders or Farcy. 



Glanders and Farcy are the same except that Glanders affects the head 

 and Farcy other parts of the body, frequently the hind legs. This disease is 

 very contagious and can be passed from animals to people. It usually results 

 in death to the animal. 



Cattle seem to be rather immune to tne disease. The cause of Glanders 

 is due to a specific virus of this disease being transmitted by direct contact. 

 It is spread by watering troughs, stable men, hitching posts and anything on 

 which has been any of the discharge from the nose of an affected horse. 



Symptoms. There is a sticky, colorless discharge from the nostrils. Also 

 little ulcers appear on the membrane lining of the nostrils. In Farcy little 

 bunches which are' hot and sensitive to the touch appear under the skin. These 

 are usually found on the hind legs. 



Treatment. Most states require the animal to be Killed immediately and 

 allow an indemnity. This is perhaps best, considering its highly contagious 

 nature. Good feeding and tonics sometimes stop the progress but usually the 

 horse will ultimately die because of the disease breaking out again. The cost 

 of a veterinarian is slight compared with .the damage an uncared case can do. 

 All animals dying of this disease should be burned at once, and the stables 

 thoroughly disinfected. 



People who are around animals suffering with this disease must exercise 

 the greatest care as it is extremely infectious and fatal. 



