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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Dc 



The Tenderers' reports are tabulated in the accompanying 

 table : — 



Reports of Rendering Companies, 1907. 



It is believed that public watering troughs are an important 

 agent in the dissemination of glanders among horses, and in 

 cities and towns where the disease appears to be on the in- 

 crease orders are issued to shut off the water supply, cleanse 

 them thoroughly and allow them to remain empty for two 

 or three months, and these precautions are usually followed 

 by a diminution in the number of cases reported. There is 

 no hardship in closing these troughs in late autumn and 

 winter, and in summer their necessity has been given due con- 

 sideration. If public watering troughs in cities and towns 

 where glanders exist were abolished, and standpipes with 

 faucets substituted, so that teamsters whose horses had to take 



