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with it ouo^lit to have known it. All the facts in reo-ard to 

 the cases reported from outside towns of horses bought 

 from Boston dealers have been reported in full to the veter- 

 inarian of the Boston board of health. He has also reported 

 to the Cattle Bureau any horses brought to sales stables in 

 Boston and adjoining towns which have been killed as 

 having glanders ; thus giving the Chief of the Cattle Bureau 

 an opportunity to send an agent, or the inspector of animals 

 in the town where the case occurred, to examine all other 

 horses on the infected premises and ascertain whether there 

 were any more cases of the disease there or not, and to see 

 that proper steps were taken to disinfect the place w^here 

 the diseased animal had been kept. 



No one has any sympathy for a man who wants to get 

 something for nothing, and when such a person is cheated 

 it serves him right, if he is the only suflerer ; but when he 

 is sold animals that are a source of danger to the horses of 

 his neighbors, and a menace to human life, it is time a stop 

 was put to this nefarious business, and better legislation and 

 stricter law^s become necessary. 



Occasionally a dealer of good standing sells a second- 

 hand horse to a farmer or country merchant, which in the 

 course of three or four months may develop glanders, and 

 which was very likely infected at the time it Avas purchased, 

 although showing no symptoms of disease at the time of 

 sale. Such animals are sold innocently by the dealer, and 

 it is the purchaser's misfortune, if, after using such an ani- 

 mal a while, it develops symptoms of the disease, or if any 

 other horses belonging to him have to be condemned. 



On the other hand, unscrupulous dealers sometimes sell 

 horses which show manifest symptoms of glanders or farcy 

 at the time of sale, taking advantage of the unfamiliarity of 

 the purchaser with diseases of this character. That selling 

 these cheap horses is a profital)le business, is manifest by 

 the amount of advertising in Boston papers of second-hand 

 horses for sale, representing old, balky and vicious horses 

 as being very desirable animals. 



Farmers and merchants are cautioned against purchasing 

 animals from dealers of this character. There are plenty of 



