RESPIRATORY AFFECTIONS 



one's notice. A common test employed by 

 horsemen for denoting the existence of this 

 trouble is to make a feint to strike the animal, 

 which, if affected, usually "grunts," but this 

 is not positive evidence, as some horses 

 will omit this sound from pure nervous- 

 ness. It may be accepted as fairly good 

 but not positive evidence. Its existence is 

 certainly sufficient to warrant a thorough 

 testing, and the best way of doing this is to put 

 on the saddle and bridle, and gallop the horse 

 on soft and heavy land. Pressure on the larynx, 

 in order to induce the animal to cough, is a test 

 commonly employed, but not much reliance 

 can be placed upon it, whilst it is a practice 

 abominably abused, and one commonly deserving 

 condemnation. In the selection of a horse at 

 a repository, fair, market overt, or other public 

 place, the facilities for testing a horse's wind 

 are not always obtainable, consequently most 

 reliance has to be placed upon the simple ex- 

 pedient of resorting to the method first alluded 

 to. No matter how clever a hunter may be, if 

 affected with the trouble now under considera- 

 tion, the price should never be a high one; 



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