162 HORSE-TRAINING MADE EAST. 



badly affected with farcy glanders — that is, the 

 two stages of glanders combined. These horses 

 were waiting their turn to be shod at a shoeing 

 shop in the neighborhood. In close proximity 

 to these animals were some ten or a dozen other 

 horses, the owners of which were perfectly inno- 

 cent of the danger in which their animals were 

 placed. Qualified veterinary surgeons in the 

 army would prevent all such occurrences. The 

 horse with locked jaw cannot be used for any 

 purpose, and it would not be a matter of surprise 

 if he did not reach his camp. 



I have condemned several horses as glandered 

 during the last few months, some of which were 

 afterwards sold, with, of course, a guilty know- 

 ledge, to other parties innocent of the nature 

 of the disease. Such men should be held re- 

 sponsible by law for all damage resulting from 

 such a sale. Did these parties know the weight 

 of the responsibility which rests upon them, they 

 would not for a few paltry dollars sacrifice the 

 property and often the lives of their fellow-men. 



R. McClure, V. S., says : '' The symptoms of 

 glanders are to be studied, not with a view to its 

 cuKe, which is at all times dangerous to attempt, 

 as there is the risk of contagion to him who 

 attempts it; but with a view of ascertaining and 

 diagnosing truly that it is glanders, that being 

 all that can repay for the trouble, in order that 

 the animal be destroyed at once, as it is not fit 

 to live upon the face of the earth, with contami- 

 nation following in its wake. 



