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the animal at night, and, in cold or wet weather, keep him 

 where it is dry and moderately warm. 



Attend promptly to disinfecting your stable. Fumigate 

 it with tobacco-smoke while the horse is in it. Make 

 him and all his companions inhale as much of the smoke as 

 yon can. Fill the stable with the smoke until you can no 

 longer remain in it yourself. "Wash every part of it, and 

 especially the mangers, with a strong decoction of tobacco, 

 and keep pounded tobacco-leaves in every feeding-place used 

 by any horse that has been exposed to the disease. As soon 

 as you commence this course, there is little danger of the 

 contagion spreading further. 



It may be necessary, in some cases, to continue this treat- 

 ment longer than the time specified above. But if these 

 directions are faithfully and perseveringly carried out, there 

 are few cases of glanders which may not be successfully 

 treated, up to the period in which the disease is passing into 

 the third stage. 



It will be an excellent precautionary measure to fumigate 

 the stable occasionally, if there is any reason to suspect that 

 its inmates have been exposed to this or any other infectious 

 disease. The tobacco will prove a preventive for all alike. 

 Other respectable authorities, besides Youatt, in the extract 

 we have given, affirm that there is danger of infection being 

 communicated to the attendant upon a glandered horse. This 

 may be the case where there is no preventive. But the 

 attendant, in a stable frequently fumigated with tobacco- 

 smoke, and with a pipe or good cigar in his mouth, need 

 have no fears. 



We can not dismiss this subject without a few plain words 

 tct every owner of a horse. 



It is a stigma upon the .humanity and intelligence of any 

 man to keep his noble and faithful servant, the horse, in a 

 low, damp, or muddy stable, in the midst of foul air, with a 

 great pile of manure heating and steaming beneath him ; and 

 not only without ventilation, but oftentimes deprived of light 

 also, which is really almost as essential to the health and 



