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a shovel which had just been made red hot 

 in the saddle-room fire. Crude Sanitas or 

 crude carbolic acid is placed on this, and the 

 attendant stays with the horse in the box, 

 now full of these fumes, as long as he feels he 

 can stand it. By this means antiseptic fumes 

 are passing down the nostrils and back of the 

 throat of our horse ; and while I do not say 

 that this is enough to kill germs, I repeat 

 that, since I investigated the cause of this 

 disease and took these precautions, I have 

 not had any of my chargers suffer from it. I 

 therefore recommend that all hired horses 

 should be fumigated in this way before being 

 taken to camp. As a further precaution, and 

 one I have more belief in, I have on several 

 occasions ordered a large hot " Leucoid " 

 poultice to be applied to the throat of the 

 horse coming out of specially dirty-looking 

 stables. This substance holds the heat even 

 longer than linseed and draws blood to the 

 part, so helping to defeat the invaders. 



I hope that men will take these two pre- 

 cautions with all hired horses this year. I 

 do not say they are infallible, but they have 

 succeeded so far with me. Further, I pro- 

 pose at our next training to have a note 



