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home, and two of them were found to be diseased with farcy 

 the day after they arrived in Waltham, and were immediately 

 killed ; another developed symptoms of farcy a few days after 

 he was brought home, and was killed within a week or ten 

 days of the time of his removal from the stable in Boston ; 

 the fourth horse also had farcy, and was killed about the 

 same time as the others, but had been brought from the 

 boarding stable to the home stable in Waltham a few weeks 

 earlier than the other three. There was no history of any 

 glanders or farcy in the express company's stable in Wal- 

 tham prior to bringing these four horses home, but a number 

 of cases killed as glandered have been reported to the Board 

 of Cattle Commissioners by the inspector of Boston, as com- 

 ing from the boarding stable where the express company's 

 four horses were kept. 



Another instance of the manner in which the disease may 

 be disseminated from a large centre of infection, as that ex- 

 isting in Boston, may be illustrated by the case at Plympton, 

 or one of the cases at Lancaster. 



The horse at Plympton was at the ice houses at Silver 

 Lake ; he was brought there from Dorchester last winter by 

 the ice company. After deciding that the animal had glan- 

 ders, the Boston inspector was notified and went to the ice 

 company's stable in Dorchester and found two more horses 

 with glanders, which he ordered killed. The horse at Plymp- 

 ton had been kept by himself from winter until August, when 

 the case was reported to the Board and the horse ordered 

 killed. Another example is a case at Lancaster. A farmer 

 bought a cheap horse at a well-known sale stable in Boston, 

 to help do the extra work of the summer months ; he was 

 reported as having glanders after the farmer had owned him 

 a couple of months, and was ordered killed. As he was a 

 slow horse for farm work, he was not taken off the farm 

 during his stay there, and, as far as the Board is informed, 

 none of his owner's other horses became infected. The horse 

 at Plympton was also kept alone, and only worked around 

 the premises of the ice company. Fortunately, these two 

 cases appear to have done no damage by contaminating other 

 animals. 



The most gratifying results have been those obtained in 



