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was made by equally high authorities, about the scab in sheep, 

 but where severe restrictive legislation has been tried it has soon 

 proved that there was really nothing but contagion to fear. 



722. — "We are the less inclined to bow down to their view of 

 the case when we see that all three of them take the same case 

 for what they call a " demonstration" of their view of this matter, 

 and that case a very feeble one. Mr. Youatt tells us, that Mr. 

 Percival quotes Mr. Coleman's statement that " In the expedition 

 to Qniberon, the horses had not been long on board the transports 

 before it became necessary to shut down the hatchways (we 

 believe for a few hours only), the consequence of this was that 

 some of them were suffocated, and that all the rest were 

 disembarked either glandered or farcied." 



723. — It must strike any earful reader how very possible and 

 probable it is, that in horses shipped from an infected country, 

 a recently infected horse may have been taken on board, and that 

 being all watered from the same buckets, the disease would be 

 communicated to all. Against this one very poor case in favour 

 of their supposition, we have the undoubted fact that tens of 

 thousands of horses have been shipped, between Australia and 

 New Zealand, and although thousands of them have been killed 

 by bad air, no case of glanders has ever been developed. Nor do 

 the lowest and most filthy stables produce the disease in those 

 countries where it has never been introduced. Of course, in this, 

 as in any other disease, a vigorous, well treated horse, living in 

 good air, may ward off a degree of infection that would be fatal to 

 a weak horse, or one less favourably situated. 



724. — The first indication of this disease is generally a slight 

 regular discharge from the left nostril, of a clear, but very gluey, 

 sticky fluid, without any of the usual indications of a common 

 cold. As soon as any suspicion is aroused, on this life or death 

 question, refer the matter at once to the most competent authority 

 at your command, and act promptly on the information so 

 obtained. 



725. — The same may be said of farcy, which appears to be 

 the same disease under a totally different manifestation. The 

 most able and experienced men are sometimes so unable to decide 



