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comfort of either man or beast as are food and air. In the 

 close, fetid atmosphere of such a place, neither horse nor 

 human can long remain without succumbing to disease. 



If any of these nuisances exist in your stable, in the name 

 of every consideration of mercy, gratitude, and self-interest, 

 give your faithful friend a better home. Let him have a 

 clean, dry house to live in, with plenty of air and light. K 

 the qld stable can not be remedied in all these respects, tear 

 it down, and build a new and better one. Depend upon it, 

 you will consult your own interests by so doing ; and thus, 

 too, you may prove that you are tit to own a horse. 



Of course, these suggestions must be acted upon in treat- 

 ing all established cases of glanders, or it is mere presump- 

 tion to expect a cure. To use any remedies und^r the most 

 unfavorable circumstances possible, and then, because they 

 fail, to sweepingly condemn the whole treatment, is neither 

 Justice nor common sense. 



A REMARKABLE CASE. 



Having occasion to pass through Giles County, Tennessee, 

 some time during the year 1856, the author happened to stop 

 at the store, which was also the post-office, of the little vil- 

 lage of Bethel. Here he heard a gentleman present remark 

 to his neighbor that he was almost ruined ; it seemed as 

 though his horses and mules would all die, as he understood 

 that the disease which had got among them was absolutely 

 incurable. Inquiry elicited the following facts. The gentle- 

 man was a farmer and large stock-raiSer in the vicinity, 

 having at that time about forty head of horses and mules, 

 most of them young, which he had been getting ready for 

 market. He had had the great misfortune to become the 

 owner of a glandered horse. The infection had spread among 

 the young colts, and a number of them were already dis- 

 eased. 



This was, indeed, a most alarming state of affairs, involving 

 a pecuniary interest of several thousands of dollars. It was 

 a case, if one ever occurred, in which to test the efficacy of 



